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...navigated through page after page of tricky self-contradicting forms and a bureaucracy with absolutely no interest in issuing any gun permits to anyone in Jersey City. This was the biggest hurdle yet, and the temptation to smuggle in a rifle from Oregon was overwhelming (federal laws regulating interstate transport of firearms are surprisingly lax; I could have flown from Oregon to Jersey with a rifle as declared luggage and nobody would have blinked an eye at Newark International). I just couldn't stand the fact that I was losing six months of training because of some silly laws that...
...manufacture excess cholesterol, can significantly reduce the risk of suffering a heart attack. But statins don't work for everyone. So drug companies are studying the biochemical pathways by which the body pulls cholesterol that has already been manufactured out of a cell. "By turning this reverse cholesterol transport on, you'd be able to stimulate removal of cholesterol from vessel walls back to the liver for excretion," says Dr. Richard Gregg, vice president of metabolic- and cardiovascular-drug discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb. Taken in combination with statins, such drugs could virtually sweep the arteries clean of cholesterol...
Touching down on the West Side of Manhattan in late winter was a wondrous new vehicle for transport to the stars: the Hayden Planetarium, centerpiece of the $210 million Rose Center for Earth and Space. The 87-foot aluminum sphere that is the Hayden's core seemed to float inside a 10-story glass-walled cube, which is the Hayden's outer shell. "A cosmic cathedral," was how architect James Polshek proudly described his creation. A planetarium is, of course, only a transmitter of outer space to those of us on terra firma. By contrast, the new space station...
RYDER TRUCKS Ballot transport recasts Okla. City van as justice on wheels. What has U-Haul done...
...time when even ordinary people have clean clothes and houses, nutritious food and potable water with which to bathe and cook, the freedom to quit any job we dislike, the ability to hear symphonic music and watch dramas without leaving home and the opportunity to ride vehicles that can transport us anywhere in the world in a matter of hours, that their immediate response would be to cry out, "You live in paradise!"? THOMAS A. DIMAGGIO York...