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BOTTOMS UP! Go ahead, raise a glass. The largest study yet on alcohol's effect on health concludes that a drink a day can improve longevity. Those who benefit most: middle-age folks who have had a heart attack or stroke, or are otherwise at risk for heart disease...
...been transformed into "Titipu, Inc."--a software mega-corporation--and the noblemen of the town become identically-suited business executives who try to juggle their brief-cases, beepers and cellular phones to amusing effect. The "schoolgirl" chorus which accompanies our recently-graduated heroines has been transformed, through a stroke of sheer genius, into a hyper-modernized version of the Japanese schoolgirl: the archetype found ubiquitously in the cartoons (anime) which permeate Japanese popular culture. Decked out in characteristic anime schoolgirl uniforms--white blouses, hot pink neckties, suggestively tiny pleated skirts and hair in brilliant colors found nowhere in nature (Yamakawa...
...fungible commodity with political experience. They are not interested in learning the essential political road maps, and like students at other elite campuses, too many Harvard students want to make policy without making politics. This is about as realistic as wanting to win a gold medal in the butterfly stroke without putting your face in the water...
...THREAT With King Fahd of Saudi Arabia laid low by a stroke, day-to-day policy decisions of the world's biggest oil producer are being made by Crown Prince Abdullah--the first future King of Saudi Arabia in recent times who doesn't speak English. "He's more of a nationalist and is seeking better relations with Iran," notes Zonis. Both Iran and Saudi Arabia are trying to figure out how to increase oil revenues. Experts believe they might strike a deal: Iran would cease all terrorist activity in Saudi Arabia; in exchange, the Saudis would work to raise...
...least, not a protracted one. From the late 1940s until yesterday, the Pentagon was technically allowed to bomb the blazes out of any foreign power, take their nukes on the chin, and sit tight in anticipation of victory ? whatever that would mean. But no longer. With a stroke of the pen, President Clinton has eradicated the option of a prolonged thermonuclear exchange from military guidelines...