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...than the story Air Force One is telling. It concerns demented terrorists who somehow insinuate themselves onto the presidential plane and take the Chief Executive and everyone else aboard hostage. Their offer is lives for a life--specifically that of a genocidal tyrant named General Radek, president of a breakaway Russian republic now being held in a Moscow jail...
Martin has helped make Richmond one of the hot spots cropping up in erstwhile advertising backwaters from Portland, Ore., to Winston-Salem, N.C., and Minneapolis, Minn. Periodically, breakaway boutiques emerge from big-city agencies, get hot, then are reabsorbed when they start bagging big accounts. Now, the quest for an advertising edge has sent brands like ESPN and McDonald's scurrying way off Madison...
...70th minute, Silva provided just that. Felled by a Terrier defender in the box on a breakaway, Silva was awarded a penalty kick which he subsequently shot into the lower left corner...
However, the Crimson had to play short a man for 19 minutes, as sophomore Andrew Lundquist received a red card for pulling down a Hartford attacker on a clear breakaway in the 72nd minute...
Whether conventional medicine will ever extend such diplomatic recognition to breakaway practitioners like Weil is an open question. Part of the problem appears to be Weil himself. Even after 30 years, many of his mainstream colleagues still remember him mostly for his marijuana studies and persist in seeing him, at best, as a drug apologist and, at worst, as an advocate. Weil hasn't always helped his own cause: his third book, From Chocolate to Morphine (Houghton Mifflin, 1983), seemed to argue for the essential blamelessness of most mind-altering drugs and to make little distinction between plants like cocoa...