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A comprehensive international review of 54 studies concluded that the pill doesn't heighten a woman's long-term probability of getting breast cancer.
The international review, over 54 studies, used 5400 people in their study.
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The publication turns to science to assess the truthfulness of Clinton's denials of the romance.
You can use science to sniff out a lie.
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A backdoor appropriations victory is not exactly the strong-arming triumph a chief executive is supposed to win over Congress.
The chief executive didn't really care about how the victory arrived
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One problem with online polling is that pollsters can't e-mail people at random.
People cannot be emailed at random during online polling.
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But the idea that somehow it doesn't really make a difference whether AOL is paying $156 or $165 billion for Time Warner is wrong, and seems emblematic of the fawning embrace of this deal by the press.
AOL could be paying 156 or 165 billion.
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But I do worry that the Barro offer sends the wrong signals to younger economists--that by telling them the profession still insists on the appearance of superstardom, that it only values home runs when we really ought to be looking for a solid series of base hits, it will encourage what is already a disturbing propensity to favor attention-grabbing showmanship at the expense of deeper, more time-consuming work.
Being an economist has long been focused on slow, steady progressions rather than big leaps.
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He looks like he's still alive.
He was run over by a car and will live.
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Tripp has spent 26 years in this cocoon, which will enable her to retire on a handsome pension, based on the average of her three highest consecutive years of pay.
Tripp worked for high pay to earn a handsome pension.
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Schor's right--it is depressing when people get into the grip of an all-engulfing need to establish their identity by buying stuff, especially if it's stuff they can't afford.
Being materialistic is a positive trait to have.
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Granted, there exists, in the form of a rich language and history, what Huntington would call a core Sinic civilization.
There exists a Sinic civilization based on the language and the history.
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Books and TV specials are on the way.
The books and television shows that are planned will be severely delayed and possibly canceled.
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It would also help our thinking if we could avoid the sex and violence mantra.
We can help our thinking.
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Powell, on the other hand, had a marriage, a child, lovers (male and female), loyal friends.
Powell had no one to turn to when needing support.
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Pataki made this explicit at the bill's Albany signing History teaches us that the Great Hunger was not the result of a massive Irish crop failure, but rather a deliberate campaign by the British to deny the Irish people the food they needed to survive.
Pataki thought the British were to blame for the Great Hunger.
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A recent article in Science claimed to rebut Noam Chomsky's theory that our capacity for language is hard-wired in a particular--and uniquely human--module of the brain.
An article that appeared recently in Science made claims that Noam Chomsky's theory was false.
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Pollard may have spied for a friendly country, but he did a traitor's work.
Pollard was spying for more than one country.
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But aren't education, family leave, and the breakdown of community economic issues?
The breakdown of community has little to do with economics.
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3) Fragmentary intelligence suggests that China wanted to channel money to Clinton's campaign.
China would benefit greatly in new treaties if Clinton won.
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They were like the ones in The Last Picture Show , with wrinkles around the middle and unreliable straps that slid around on the shoulders, uneasily contending with the bra straps.
The straps were very annoying.
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I'd just like to point out, in case you were planning a satirical musical comedy about the crisis in question, something you can do to a song from West Side Story : Korea, I've just met a place called Korea!
The West Side Story is a great comedy.
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Some House Republicans, including DeLay, have fired back at Bush, accusing him of betraying them, meddling in their business, and distorting their ideas.
The President was accused of various negative events by a group of House Republicans.
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And can anybody remember Renee Richards, the transsexual tennis-playing physician?
Renee Richards flunked out of medical school three times.
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Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, forced by inclement weather to abandon his attempt to become the first man to circumnavigate the globe riding on the back of an 11-year-old Indonesian girl.
Phil Knight, chief of Nike, has been criticized for the use of child labor
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But in the world we live in--or at least in the neighborhood I live in--there are so many interchangeable dry cleaners that none of them should be able to get away with exploiting anyone.
Dry cleaners get away with exploiting in the neighborhood I live in.
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Once he took a year off to sell real He hated it.
He hated the time he took off in order to sell stuff.
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Lamar Alexander's campaign never got off the ground because the American people can recognize a phony ().
His genuine personality is the main reason Alexander won reelection.
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Some 30 years after his death, the theaters had been destroyed, the actors dismissed and the playwrights sent into exile.
The actors and playwrights were sent away, as the theaters had been destroyed.
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) to keep him out of their way.
They do want the person in their way.
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But if you want to create our very own Quebec, go ahead and pass an official English law.
You are uninfluential in Quebec.
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My high-speed modem is mine, so your intellectual property must be mine too.
Because my router is also mine, your intellectual property is likely also mine.
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While Johnson's survival deterred members of Congress from considering impeachment in Watergate, Nixon's ouster has had the opposite effect, emboldening Clinton's foes.
Clinton's foes were emboldened by Nixon's ouster.
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No question, taxes can affect behavior.
High taxes lead to more stress.
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Smoking will offer a reliable indoor pleasure that I can enjoy seated, much to be desired in my decrepitude.
The author enjoys smoking inside, and his wife hates it and he doesn't care.
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The cover story profiles a day trader who learns his financial fundamentals from the Web and trusts his feel for stocks.
The development of the internet was crucial in his becoming an effective trader.
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Needless to say, one such entry would be unacceptable, and we've adopted strict safeguards to prevent any such problems.
The Safeguards are work flawlessly one hundred percent of the time.
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, the government--borrowing a lot of money).
The government has been loaned a lot of cash.
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Restore national controls over global capital.
Global capital has control.
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The Korbels and Simova continued to correspond after the war, and Simova met Albright briefly in Prague just after the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
Albright met the Korbels in Prague in 1989.
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It may be more important to ask whether it's helped the people it was supposed to help, he began.
There was a inquiry made to gauge whether or not they received assistance, which helped to bring clarity to the situation for everyone.
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Instead I turned right, toward the men's department, still searching for those pants.
The pants were found in the men's department.
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The critics are dying to Is the 5-month old girl adopted or not?
A few critics believed she would be adopted as a toddler.
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Slate is scheduled to take up residence Monday, Oct. 27, as an anchor tenant on AOL's news-channel newsstand.
The anchor tenant on AOL is read by all who who visit the newsstand.
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The House passed the partial-birth-abortion ban , as expected.
It was expected that the partial-birth-abortion ban would be passed.
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Very much to her credit, she hasn't become bitter about her shrinking influence; she's not stuck in whiny nostalgia for the way things were.
She normally finds herself not whiny.
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The Americans' one-point victory over the European team was the biggest comeback in the tournament's history.
There have been other big comebacks against the European team.
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To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.
None of Mick Jagger's children were involved in the photo spread.
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Congratulations to all our winners.
Winners are happy with the praise.
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While four other witnesses criticized the duplicity of pro-drug forces and the naivete of the voters, Romley bluntly identified the central choices facing law go after doctors, federalize marijuana enforcement, go to court, and get a strategy.
Romley is an outspoken lawyer who identified the main choices facing law today.
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The former does seem to explain the latter.
The latter explains the former.
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Today, a letter writer who once interviewed the spy claims that to the dead man's knowledge, U.S. authorities never approved Diem's assassination.
The approval for Diem's assassination was not given by U.S. authorities, according to a spy that claimed that this was to the knowledge of the dead man, in an interview by a letter writer, today.
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It's almost barbaric in a certain way.
It is a far cry from being considered barbaric.
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She's still working on it, a Pentagon source tells me.
Pentagon founts are often not completely reliable
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We can stumble into a war with China over Taiwan very easily, warns Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University.
He has been employed at the D.C. college for over a decade.
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The Clinton administration considers the risks of technology transfers negligible.
The Clinton administration has conducted a study on the risks of technology transfers.
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Forgive the debtors, especially the hopeless cases among the very poorest nations.
Very poor nations owe credit to someone.
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Time 's cover story argues that Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's findings of fact could not have been worse for Microsoft and could be used against Microsoft by competitors in private antitrust actions.
Microsoft was the Post cover article regarding antitrust.
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Time describes honor killings in Jordan, which comprise a quarter of the Arab nation's homicides.
Arab nation's believe in honor killings.
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a) Had an adulterous affair with a young intern.
He had an affair with a young intern.
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One couple we definitely don't expect to see reconciling anytime soon is Cybill Shepherd and her former fiance Robert Martin.
Cybill Shepherd and Robert Martin might get married soon
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If he becomes a serious threat, Livingston and other GOP leaders will make sure to stop him.
Livingston will stop the GOP leaders' serious threats.
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Because we see no sense in causing more financial distress than necessary, we are still under the same roof while we work out the details.
No one wants to work anything out.
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In the warren of grungy rooms beneath the dance floor--the celebrities' sanctum sanctorum--the coke was consumed by the linear foot, and (according to the author) the odd European contessa could be found handcuffed to a water pipe, getting squired from the rear by one of the pretty shirtless busboys.
The activities were considered legal.
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Long ignored by snake experts, the skeleton shares many physical characteristics with that of snakes, including its 140 vertebrae and its extraordinarily flexible jaws.
Snake experts have long noticed the skeleton.
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Programmers are furiously debugging old software, so we're likely to avoid catastrophic shutdowns of electrical grids, banks, air-traffic computers, medical equipment, and the like.
The programmers are taking their time debugging the old software.
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Cynics' He's playing dead . Anti-Microsoft analysts spin the same theory the other Gates, having been pulled over by the cops for aggressive driving, is sliding into the passenger seat and giving the wheel to Ballmer, whose record is clean, so that the cops will go easy on the company.
Gates has a questionable record.
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Man on the Moon does not indicate, for example, that Kaufman came up with the idea for the Saturday Night Live call-in vote, nor that he had numerous chances to nix the whole thing.
It is not indicated in Man on the Moon that Kaufman invented the idea for the SNL call-in vote.
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The Supreme Court has never ruled on FISA, and it did not overturn a McCarthy-era statute which, like the removal court, was used to deport noncriminal aliens based on their political affiliations.
FISA has been overturned by the Supreme Court.
contradiction
We admire perfectionist monomania in Internet tycoons, so why not in Martha?
Martha is treated the same as everyone else.
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(If that were my name, I might not want to talk about the scandal either.)
The author would be happy to answer questions about the scandal.
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You'd have to invoke your own gods for the requisite charm.
You must call on your own gods in order to reveal it's allure.
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Outlook SWAT teams swooped down daily to reduce the size of our code.
The SWAT team only came once.
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The consistency of Israeli policy made the difference.
Israeli policy is always consistent.
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Most people would rather keep what they have than risk it for a hypothetical payoff.
A possible payout isn't worth the risk for most.
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What to do about that, I don't know.
I'm unsure how to handle that.
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Lose the dismal cover illustrations and return to having a lead review or cover essay.
Essays should not include cover illustrations.
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These states will have gambling that is accessible, but not universal; gambling that funds state government but does not hold it hostage.
The states are already constructing casinos in their populous cities.
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As with Ron Brown, we'd like to know whether Ames was a monopolist or one of many sellers in a competitive marketplace.
Ron Brown was much more successful financially than Ames ever hoped to be.
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Kinsley fails to address the main point of the privatization Social Security changes people's behavior.
Kinsley doesn't tackle the concern that the privatization of Social Security will alter people's behavior.
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Henry liked flowers that could make a lady squeal.
Henry was fond of flowers that the ladies adored.
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For that matter, we can't compare the GIs to the Athenians of Pericles' time, the Florentines of Michelangelo's, or the Americans of Abraham Lincoln's.
These are a new breed of GI.
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I suppose that there are people who feel happiness or sorrow or jealousy or triumph directly, without any combination of words, either remembered or made up for the purpose.
Some people could experience emotions and not be able to label them.
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The important question is not whether Clinton had sex with her and lied about it but what the country should do about this.
The woman Clinton had sex with was in love with him.
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Unimpressed with her upstate forays, Rudolph Giuliani, her likely Senate rival, Every time I have gone up there, I have gotten the sense that they like me.
Rudolph Giuliani has a lack of competition in the senate.
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He appeared on every network Tuesday night to insist that the Bush brothers and other victorious Republican governors such as George Pataki (New York), John Rowland (Connecticut), Tommy Thompson (Wisconsin), and John Engler (Michigan) were conservatives.
He believed they were liberals.
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We've received thousands of e-mail messages since our launch June 24 (most of them friendly, thanks), and this is a small taste.
They have received a ton of emails since their start and most of them are quite positive.
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Does his behavior add up to grounds for removal from office?
The behavior is acceptable to some.
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Maybe next week's Times business section's lead media article should be about whether newspapers have become more like magazines in their struggle to maintain and build readership in these trying digital times.
Newspapers are thriving during our digital times
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In fact, although all other nominees are welcome, Slate 's software-development team--through a simple iterative program--has already cast 1.8 million votes for Bill Gates.
Bill Gates won the contest with his votes.
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What this means is that the revenue from any new taxes on pollution could be used to reduce other taxes, such as Social Security contributions or the income tax (but not, of course, the capital-gains tax).
Revenue from one tax stays in the same area it was collected in.
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While these varieties are generally incompatible with one another, all this code-writing has resulted in a far-flung community that understands the Unix beast.
The majority of Unix users knows at least a programming language
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Between 1989 and 1993, 48,000 students received Pell Grant overpayments; 35,000 received Pell Grants from two separate schools simultaneously; and 101,000 students, ineligible for Pell Grants because they had defaulted on federally guaranteed loans, received them anyway.
Just a few hundred people mistakenly received Pell Grant funds that they were not eligible for.
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(This site has photos, cast bios, and ticket information.)
The photos available on this site are all copyrighted
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What does this calendar tell us about the Spice Girls?
This calendar tells us about the Spice Girls.
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That Explains Why Clinton's Finger The McLaughlin Group spends 11 minutes in a straight-faced discussion of Maureen Dowd's jokey suggestion that Clinton is actually ...
Maureen Dowd's comments were made in complete seriousness.
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This is the favorite of the savvier Dems, notably House Democratic Caucus head Vic Fazio and Minority Leader Richard Gephardt.
Vic Fazio is in the Democratic party.
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At least it gives the film a surprise ending.
The ending of the film is a sad one
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Pulitzer Prizes, for example, go to books and newspapers but not to magazines.
Pulitzer Prizes only go to magazines.
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One answer is to try to change the incentives of politicians, by making it more difficult for special interests to buy influence.
Changing the incentives on politicians is one answer.
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Nothing in Siegel's work could explain this perception.
Siegel's work was very clear in it's perception.
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Yardley's conclusions don't add up to much in any conventional biographical sense, and he admits as much in his [Exley] lived on another planet, if not in another universe.
While the conclusion does not make much sense, it’s possible that it accurate.
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