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...course, the best way to silence a noisy presidential underdog is to throw him a bone. George W. Bush has ventured far enough out of smile-and-wave mode to make some noises along McConnell's line ? make a CPI adjustment to the current hard-money limits and require full disclosure of contributors. "If a grand compromise is made," says Carney, "that could be the tradeoff: a soft-money ban in exchange for more hard money." That's still a long way from "one man, one vote" ? the rich will still get all the access when their man wins...
...rotation," Watkins says. "If the disk ruptures into the spinal canal, it can injure the sciatic nerves that run down to the legs." Couples once likened the resulting pain to "a hand grenade going off in my back." Facet joints are more prone to arthritic changes and to producing bone spurs that narrow the spinal canal...
Under a hot sun broken by violent summer showers, Kosovo is waking to a midsummer's nightmare. The sickly sweet smell of decaying flesh hangs in invisible clouds across the province, and the ground offers up body parts. Bits of ashen bone--a thigh, a rib cage--and chunks of roasted flesh litter the floors of burned-out houses. Corpses, left where they fell, putrefy in fields and farmyards amid the buzzing of flies and the howling of stray dogs. As the first of Kosovo's Albanian refugees stream back across the borders or down from hiding in the hills...
Stauffer's off-the-field heroics helped earn her the award--she twice donated bone marrow for her brother Matt, a leukemia patient who passed away in January 1998. During 1997, she took a leave of absence, sitting out the soccer season to donate marrow for the second time...
...mixers, inflatable furniture, an Austin-inspired fragrance and an authorized Swedish penis enlarger. There's also a new version of the Clue board game, a near life-size doll of Dr. Evil's tiny henchman Mini-Me and a talking watch that barks phrases like "Throw me a frickin' bone here!" Kicking in additional millions for promotional tie-ins are half a dozen companies, ranging from Virgin Atlantic airlines to Heineken beer. Next spring there will be a prime-time HBO cartoon series. "We want this to be around for the next 10 to 20 years, ad infinitum," says...