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...raised," said Joe Scarborough, a House Republican from Florida. However, Gingrich's turnaround seems to have allayed the fears of the small but significant number of Republicans who were leery of re-electing him while he remained under an ethical cloud. Connecticut's Chris Shays, who had threatened to abstain unless the report was released, and New York's Peter King, a vocal Gingrich critic, came back into the fold, both pledging to vote for Newt on Jan. 7. What remains, however, is the problem House Republicans feared still more: daily partisan warfare over Gingrich that will make it even...
...spite of the cardiovascular benefits of moderate amounts of ALCOHOL, the American Cancer Society says that a few glasses a week may increase the risk of breast cancer among high-risk women. The group's advice: limit intake or abstain altogether...
...Talk about a pick-me-up. Data on 87,000 female nurses ages 34 to 60 show that women who drink two or more cups of coffee a day are two-thirds less likely to commit suicide than those who abstain. The finding comes as a surprise: coffee lovers tend to drink alcohol, smoke and have lots of what they perceive to be stress--all factors thought to be associated with a high suicide risk...
Muhammed, speaking as Farrakhan's representative, encouraged members of the black community to strike from work for the day, and to abstain from labor and commercial activity...
...mentality of abstinence demands a certain elementary moral metaphysics. Teach this: the more you indulge in anything, good or bad, but especially bad--in drugs, casual sex, violence, idiot music, stupidity, driving 90 m.p.h., bad manners, rage--the more you lose. The more you abstain, the more you gain. This is not cheap rhyming paradox but a good truth that in the past generation or two has been swept away by raw sewage. For an adolescent, abstinence means security and, therefore, the freedom that comes with self-possession. Abstinence becomes a medium of clarity, the window through which...