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...might think half a muffin over an entire day wouldn't matter much, particularly if you exercise regularly. After all, doesn't exercise turn fat to muscle, and doesn't muscle process excess calories more efficiently than fat does...
...gathered in the basement of the West Wing to begin planning for the siege to come. On the flat-screen televisions embedded in the soundproof walls, a PowerPoint slide flashed the human toll of previous epidemic flus: more than 600,000 Americans died in the 1918 pandemic, 70,000 "excess" deaths resulted from the Asian flu in 1957, and there were 34,000 deaths after the Hong Kong flu hit in 1968. Next to the 2009-10 H1N1 pandemic, the screens showed nothing but a series of question marks. The punctuation was designed to make a larger point...
...happens to be just the woman for this virgin vampire. In one long scene of sexual tension, she kisses Hyun and nearly seduces him; in another, he acknowledges both her attractiveness and his rapacious new nature and they consummate their relationship, one whose carnal excess will define the rest of the film. Their love is both sacred and insane: sacra-mental. And the movie goes mad with them. This is a mad love story that gets down to the essentials: ecstasy, pain and all the bodily fluids, especially blood. It's liberating to see a film that melds with...
...listed on ORL and OSLA's Web sites, however, suggesting that the consolidation will eliminate a substantial percentage of positions devoted to student activities and residential life.Hammonds wrote in an e-mailed statement Friday that the office shuffling was prompted neither by budgetary pressures nor a need to trim excess services and staff, but rather represented the culmination of a review process of the College's organization that she initiated last spring when appointed Dean. She said the departure of the three deans accelerated that process."The departures of these important staff allowed me to think holistically about...
...more; 7 out of 10 said no. The Finance Committee had been hoping that taxing plans that are more generous than average could raise more than $300 billion over the next 10 years. Now it is considering a higher threshold for taxation - say, for plans that cost in excess of $25,000 a year. That would mean far fewer Americans would have to pay that tax, but it would raise less than one-third the revenue. Another idea, being floated by former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle, would be to limit instead the deduction that companies could claim for providing...