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...impudent filet challenged the oldest principles of mathematics by proclaiming that it obtained 102.1 percent of its calories from fat. In other words, there were more calories from fat than there were total calories in the food. Like some entertainment-industry "synergy" mergers, the part was greater than the sum of the wholes...
...When you sum up the powerful effects of moderate exercise on the health of older people," Rowe and Kaplan observe, "it is hard to imagine why we aren't all out there working up a sweat." Fred Piccini is doing just that--and it's paying off. On a family vacation this summer with children and grandchildren in Georgia, he found himself running and jumping on rocks right alongside the kids. He says, laughing, "I felt so much energy that I forgot...
Jones cried when she heard the news and said, "It's over, I'm glad," while her supporters called the huge sum a de facto apology. Clinton allies countered that it was simply a cost-effective way to get behind him a case in which the President always maintained his innocence...
...standards of conduct [in the student handbook] are voted by The Faculty," said Killen. "What you're seeing is pretty much the faculty sum consensus...
...single subsidy but from an accumulation of subsidies. Over the years, taxpayers have funded the vast infrastructure that provides the water--dams, reservoirs, canals, locks, pumping stations, hydroelectric turbines, such as Washington State's massive Columbia Basin Project. The Federal Government picks up the tab, then bills farmers a sum equal to only a small portion of the actual cost of construction. Then it gives them 40 to 50 years to pay off their share--interest free. Estimates of the total irrigation subsidy since 1902 range from $18 billion to more than $75 billion, with most of that coming...