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Currently, there is no danger of the street collapsing further--absent the heavy pressure of large trucks, O'Riordan said...
...lieutenants do not regularly walk the beat,and sergeants are usually found in their radiocars. The presence of a patrol officer, who wouldostensibly have the most direct contact withresidents, is conspicuously absent...
...perfect spouse. Bob Dole has steered clear of his wife's campaign. He was in Washington last week as she made her announcement, and he is conspicuously absent from a 15-min. political spot the Dole campaign is running in Iowa and New Hampshire. But the nation's most famous Viagra user is all over the airwaves anyway, in Pfizer commercials discussing erectile dysfunction, or E.D. The ads are dignified, and the former Senator has been praised for his courage in talking about a condition that may affect 30 million American men. But some conservatives, like Eagle Forum president Phyllis...
After reading the piece "Poisonous Plastics?" [HEALTH, March 1], I was left with the question Where's the science? Conspicuously absent are comments from independent scientists, manufacturers of the demonized products--other than a passing reference to an Abbott Laboratories' package insert--or from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency that regulates the blood and IV bags whose safety the article questions. The fact is that numerous independent studies and reviews conducted by government bodies have found no scientific evidence of risk associated with the use of vinyl medical products. C.T. ("KIP") HOWLETT JR. Executive Director Chlorine Chemistry...
...super-modern odyssey spanning continents and styles, Emer Martin's More Bread or I'll Appear is surprisingly entangled with the traditional theme of family. Beginning in Martin's native Ireland, the story traces one sister's search for her family's eldest and most beloved sister. The absent sister, Aisling, reigns as a ghost-like presence throughout the book, seducing the rest of the characters with her unfetteredness even as she binds them together. Although the story ranges from the seedy underworld of Tokyo to the hot sands of Cuba, these bonds of family are the center of Martins...