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...ephedrine, a natural compound linked to hundreds of injuries and at least 17 deaths in the U.S. The crackdown will force manufacturers to limit the amount of the stimulant these substances can contain, force manufacturers to include labels warning that excessive use can cause death, and direct them to abandon claims that ephedrine helps users to build muscle and lose weight. The regulations will also prohibit manufacturers from recommending use for more than seven consecutive days. The move follows a recent FDA proposal which attempted to curb the use of Herbal Ecstasy, an ephedrine-based product which promised users...
...most exciting thing about the rock trio Sleater-Kinney is that it sounds as if its members are still learning how to be a rock band; they rip through their songs with a gleeful abandon, as if they had just discovered their instruments behind some old tires in the garage--they didn't pay for 'em, so who cares if they bust a few drumsticks or break a few strings...
...feeble fire extinguishers they carried were no match for the oxygen-fed flames. Ordinarily if things got out of hand, the crew could evacuate in a Soyuz capsule docked outside. But this time the fire blocked their path. Fortunately, the flames exhausted themselves before it became necessary to abandon ship, and the crisis passed...
...surrounded by the forces of the mightiest nation on earth, the ambassador decided to abandon his ramshackle redoubt deep in a lower ventricle of Texas. He had sent out a "Mayday" on shortwave radio, calling on "any nation in the world" for assistance. "We have hostiles in the woods," he cried. "We are being invaded!" But no one came to his aid, and his supporters were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely...
...power to persuade 38 followers to abandon their lives and families and commit suicide in the hope of leaving the earth aboard a spaceship, then maybe it is time for all of us to find our own comet and get as far away from this planet as possible. ALEX HOEFINGER Amherst, Massachusetts...