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...still delivers foreign-policy speeches haltingly and looks like a grad student struggling through his oral exams when he faces reporters on the subject. But lately George W. Bush has shown some new smarts, swimming in waters that previously seemed over his head to counter those impressions. He helped Bill Clinton turn back a shortsighted Republican move to pull U.S. troops from Kosovo. It would "tie the President's hand," he intoned presidentially. And because Bush is not labor's candidate, he could afford to be more enthusiastic than the Democratic Veep in lobbying Capitol Hill to pass Clinton...
PHENOLPHTHALEIN Now mostly used as a reagent in labs, this chemical was common in over-the-counter laxatives--until products with phenolphthalein were pulled from the shelves. Check the ingredients of packages that have been sitting around in your medicine cabinet for a time...
Archer wasn't the first Texas health commissioner to tackle ephedrine. Since 1995, Texas' health department had been trying to ban over-the-counter sales of most ephedrine items. Marketed under such brand names as BioLean and Ripped Fuel, the substance had been linked to heart attacks, strokes and seizures. Leaders of what has become a $1 billion industry nationwide responded that their products were safe if taken as directed, and they launched a lobbying blitz against Archer's proposal to require a doctor's prescription for most products containing ephedrine...
Another challenge to America is a military one. Beijing has started a significant expansion of those parts of its military that will undercut the American presence in Asia unless we spend large sums to counter it. China is turning out hundreds of missiles that threaten the American bases on which U.S. military power is founded. With these bases under threat, our military capacity to be a player in Asia drops sharply. The U.S. may have a "global" military that can't play in the most important part of the world...
...when they have guns themselves--know that requiring manufacturers to put gun locks on those guns and keep them out of the hands of convicted felons is not the drastic curtailing of second amendment rights that the Second Amendment Sisters (a small group of women who launched a minor counter protest on Sunday) and the NRA would like us to believe. The lives "saved" by guns every year--like the 1,500 murders John R. Lott estimates were prevented by states that allow concealed weapons to be carried in 1992--don't measure up to the 32,000 deaths each...