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...instead of fashioning a compromise that might woo a few Democrats, Hastert and DeLay held what was supposed to be a 15-min. vote open for three full hours as they squeezed the last Republican votes they needed to pass a bill to provide an expensive prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program. Far more than in the past, they brought bills to the floor with no chance of amendment and allowed the normal appropriations process to be circumvented so that pet projects could be funded without scrutiny. When DeLay faced indictment by a Texas grand jury, Hastert changed...
...blaxploitation genre's most memorable women--the Corvette-driving, martial-arts-loving title character in the film Cleopatra Jones; of complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis; in Baltimore, Md. With her flashy style--huge Afro, big hats, leather-trimmed fur coats--Cleopatra was, in the words of the drug traffickers she battled, "10 miles of bad road." Before her career ebbed in the '80s, the 6-ft. 2-in. Dobson went on to appear in other films of the genre, notably the women-in-prison film Chained Heat, as well as on TV (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century...
Though Damon may not have needed a dialect coach, he did require assistance in becoming a believable double agent in the police force. As part of his training to play Colin Sullivan, he joined the Massachusetts State Police on a drug raid of a crack house...
...switches for genes, that may be part of the mechanism by which estrogen regulates breast cancer. The findings—to be published in Nature Genetics this month—may help individualize treatment for breast cancer patients and provide additional options for those patients resistant to drugs currently used for treatment, according to the senior author, Harvard Medical School (HMS) Associate Professor of Medicine Myles A. Brown. Estrogen contributes to tumor cell growth via its role in binding to a protein net known as the estrogen receptor (ER), located in the nucleus of 70 percent of breast cancer cells...
...white tent in front of the Science Center to get their blood pressure checked, munch on dried fruit, and snatch up free bottle-openers. Twenty-four booths offered everything from on-the-spot health services, such as general physicals and mental health clinics, to pamphlets on responsible drinking and drug abuse to free goodies like stress balls and water bottles. “You can find out some things that you’re otherwise too lazy to find out...like your blood pressure and bone density,” Nicolae Done ’09 said...