Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Protestors win a victory when the Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility votes to demand that the Caterpillar Tractor Company disclose information on its activities in South Africa. Less than a week later, the University votes for the same action against General Electric and votes to have the Phillips Petroleum Company withdraw from Namibia...
...TRIP, NO GRAMPS As summer-vacation season officially kicks off, the recent rise in gasoline prices is forcing families to rethink vacation plans. According to surveys, more than half of families with children are taking trips closer to home, which involve less driving. It could also be affecting familial relationships. A survey by progressive.com found that 43% of respondents are planning fewer trips than usual this year to visit grandparents and other relatives...
COFFEE SHAKE-UP Hard to believe, but that black sludge you drink each morning may be linked to a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease. A study of 8,000 Japanese-American men shows that those who down four to five cups daily are five times less likely to develop Parkinson's than those who never drink the brew. Turns out, though, it may not be the coffee that's helping. Researchers speculate that people who need a rush of caffeine may have a type of brain chemistry that's simply less prone to Parkinson...
...barbarians of commercial jazz, have lately found themselves in a quandary. The very walls that protect the purity of their music have come to restrict its reach. Carefully, saxophonist Redman is trying to nudge open the gates a bit--not to commercial dreck, but to a less doctrinaire approach. Only an artist with Redman's extravagant formal skills could pull off such a gambit. The cuts jump from the strangely fitting eastern drone of Leap of Faith to the modern bounce of Stoic Revolutions, all woven together by Redman's probing solos. He's building something new. Long...
Musical groups made up of refugees from other bands are often far less than the sum of their parts. The recently formed neo-soul trio Lucy Pearl is a welcome exception. Composed of guitarist Raphael Saadiq (from Tony Toni Tone), singer Dawn Robinson (En Vogue) and deejay Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest), the group works well together. This is soul that strives to be smart but that never forgets to be sweet. The best track is the lovely Everyday; it's a song as tasty and warm as something pulled from a mother's oven on a Sunday...