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...President Clinton to sign environmental measures without congressional approval, as long as the public has been given adequate warning and a chance to speak out on the issue. Members of the oil industry know they face an uphill battle against the new emissions regulations; analysts aren't holding their breath for consumers to abandon public health concerns in favor of shoring up the already considerable fortunes of the world's oil syndicates...
...prodigal, pure human kindness of it--must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow...
...beautiful. I was a Jabba the Hut baby for like two days and ever since then, I've been a lean, mean, pop culture machine. (Don't you love fat babies? You can knock them over and they'll stay there for days!) Actually, every one is holding their breath in anticipation because my mom has been a toothpick since birth and my dad started out a twig and got his healthy gut around age 20 or 21. So it's 50-50-am I gonna be a size 30 waist and have a flat stomach forever? Or will...
...battle to defeat cancer, chemotherapy can sometimes (albeit rarely) prove fatal--or cause such intolerable side effects that it has to be halted. Now scientists have developed a simple and, alas, still experimental test that can predict just how well a patient will handle cancer drugs. Patients have their breath analyzed (by blowing into a balloon) soon after they are injected with a tiny dose of a drug that releases carbon particles while it's being broken down by the liver. Very little carbon suggests the body will be slow to metabolize cancer drugs--and that a less toxic dose...
...nobody knows quite where the ship is headed. President Vladimir Putin was inaugurated Sunday at a low-key ceremony in which he promised to be "guided only by the interests of the state," but while the former KGB officer speaks of democracy, he also talks in the same breath about strengthening the state; and although he says he will move decisively to get Russian capitalism up and running, he also looks set to expand state involvement in the economy. And while Boris Yeltsin's designated heir hailed his ascent as the first democratic transfer of power in Russia...