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...stakes are certainly high enough to explain the under-the-table handouts to players: the cash, the cars and the altered transcripts of academic grades. And then to this atmosphere of expedience add the element of gambling...
...scientist with a space shuttle experiment, William Parkinson, associate director of the Center for Astrophysics, could not be reached for comment on his project--a solar and terrestrial atmosphere spectrometer. Spectrometers are used to analyze the composition of gases by the unique characteristics of the light emitted by each element...
There is an element of suburbanite garage sale-flea market economic chic in the new bartering boom. Many traders admit to a strong pride in managing their lives with little money. Says Betty Cordell, 39, owner of a Barter Systems franchise in Atlanta: "I would not pay cash for a haircut, for cosmetics or dry cleaning, dental services, medical services or other costs of everyday living...
Parody is Christopher Durang's native element. He can mimic and spoof manners, trends and styles of speaking in ways that inflict the sting of truth just as surely as those of a good caricaturist. But Durang tends to end his plays unconvincingly, in a spasm of violence, as if he had been brooding on deeper things all along-like, say, man's fate. It is as if the playwright as jester suddenly dropped his mask and wished to be acknowledged as a thinker. These two one-acters at Manhattan's Playwrights Horizons Theater display both Durang...
Rheumatoid arthritis is one of many autoimmune diseases, in which the body's immune system attacks its own tissues. In rheumatoid arthritis, the body responds as if the joints were a foreign element, using different types of white blood cells to attack and destroy the supposed invader. Though researchers still hope to develop drugs that control the body's immune system, radiotherapy may provide interim relief for some of the nearly 6.5 million Americans suffering from rheumatoid arthritis...