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...delete references to Tyson before giving the document to investigators. Smaltz is likely to pursue indictments of Tyson, its head of governmental affairs and one of its lobbyists. Espy's lawyer Reid Weingarten did not deny any of the charges but accused Smaltz of distorting "trivial, personal and entirely benign activities" into criminal wrongdoing...
...local citizenry. "The key is to protect yourself," says Tom Skinner of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "That requires wearing long clothing, using insect repellent and staying indoors in the hours right before and after sunset." Avoiding encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes may be no harder than avoiding their benign kin; the stakes, however, are decidedly higher...
...unsung half-hour to the great questions of the day: How can we get idealistic, insufferable John Adams (Brent Spiner of Star Trek: The Next Generation) to shut up? Will Thomas Jefferson (Paul Michael Valley) have sex in time to write his masterpiece? And would Benjamin Franklin (the benign curmudgeon Pat Hingle) please invent air conditioning--right away? It's a tribute to Ellis' pristine staging that the plot moves as smoothly and, yes, suspensefully as it did 28 or 221 years ago. Come as a skeptic, choose favorite Founding Fathers, feel like an avid student again, shed a tear...
...attends the birth of a style. They can be marvelously refined, like the 7th century to 8th century standing figure of the Buddha of the afterlife, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. There is a perfect balance between the abstraction of the limbs, the rich linear detail of the costume and the benign, almost feminine roundness of this Buddha's torso...
SHAKING OFF TREMORS A new implantable device delivers mild electric shocks to the brain to control the tremors of Parkinson's disease and a more benign disorder, essential tremor. Major surgery is required, so it's for severe cases only...