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...Senate in early 1985, when he was still learning where the bathrooms were and how to make his way around the cavernous Russell Senate Office Building, Kerry got a tip from a Vietnam veteran that the Reagan Administration was illegally providing aid to the contra rebels, circumventing a congressional ban. Within weeks he was on a plane to Nicaragua with another freshman Senator, Tom Harkin, for a 36-hour fact-finding trip. Secretary of State George Shultz accused the rookies of being "used" by the Managua regime. "It was a very painful time for us," recalls Jonathan Winer, Kerry...
...alerting physicians that in clinical trials, Paxil, along with about half a dozen other antidepressants, wasn't any more effective than a placebo at treating depression in kids. Indeed, no antidepressant other than Prozac has been formally approved for young people. But that's not the same as a ban. Once a drug is legal, doctors can prescribe it at will...
...Then things got really weird: judges who made the ruling said their phones had been tapped, their computers checked and their offices repeatedly "visited" by unknown intruders during the trial. A trio of inquiries - none of them led by independent bodies - is looking into the claims. Ironically, the political ban applied in Juppé's case became automatic under a 1995 law passed by the same conservatives who are now calling the sentence extreme. Just as curiously, both Moïsi and Rozès say Juppé's contrite TV appearance last week may turn his reputation and career...
...modify their eating habits. Severe penalties should be imposed on restaurants still serving civet. The thought of thousands of these pretty creatures being slaughtered is extremely distressing. Can't we call upon organizations concerned with animal welfare to request a release into the wild of civets and the complete ban on their capture and use as food? The survival of mankind depends on the intelligent modification of human behavior, which is the only solution to reducing aids and SARS. Elizabeth Davies Manila...
...haircut, and George gets a laugh when he replies, earnestly, "I had one yesterday." In a crowded elevator, Paul lightens the mood by announcing, "Ladies and gentlemen, on your right you'll see the Washington Memorial." Running down a hotel corridor, George mimics the mob outside--"Ban the bomb!"--and John ad-libs, "Ban the Pope." Trapped in their suite, Ringo plaintively asks, "Are we going...