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...family-values campaigning. Standing on a family-values platform is like casting Richard Gere in a movie. It doesn't guarantee a hit, but it's a decent bet, and even the most hotheaded limousine liberal will do nothing to jeopardize a Democrat's chance to make the next batch of Supreme Court appointments. Perhaps if the congressional critics were all Republicans, as Dan Quayle can tell you, the studios would be scripting a more colorful response and sending Chris Rock to the Hill to deliver it. Or perhaps not, for it pays these days to stay on the good...
...body into skipping its monthly menstrual cycle several times in the past year. How? Instead of taking the last seven pills in her contraceptive case, which contain the placebos, or dummy pills, that allow her uterine lining to slough off each month, she immediately started her next month's batch of active medication. Result: instead of the usual 13 periods a year, she had nine...
...been ardent supporters of the military-style tactics of Colombian anti-drug units, tactics that include widespread aerial fumigation of drug crops. And so, when starving children and destitute farmers see an approaching UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, they do not praise their savior. Crop dusting might destroy one batch of drugs, but it obliterates the lifestyle of ordinary people struggling to survive...
Baker gave foul-mouthed Granny a makeover, endowing her with more wrinkles and elongated but bouncy breasts. He also created an 8-ft.-tall hamster made monstrous by a bad batch of youth formula. Special-effects supervisor Jon Farhat put the Klumps together onscreen through digital magic--the same magic that enables Baker's giant hamster to attack a group of scientists with cannonball-size pellets...
...quite sure what to make of these findings. There had already been hints that spawning of brain cells, a process called neurogenesis, occurs in animals with more primitive nervous systems. For years, Fernando Nottebohm of Rockefeller University has been showing that canaries create a new batch of neurons every time they learn a song, then slough them off when it's time to change tunes...