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People were grateful for the diversion, and of course politics is pretty much debased this year anyway. When the farm economy is tanking and meanwhile Washington is in the thralls of sexual obsession, and Congress is dormant until late October when it produces a $500 billion spending bill that is passed unread and undebated, then what exactly is the objection to Jesse ("The Body") Ventura...
...forgotten funds which sat untapped in Undergraduate Council accounts for years will lie dormant a little while longer...
...done to date with the cast we had and the 28 days we had to shoot it and the $4 million we had to make it. This character is something that I can relate to. I knew guys like this growing up, and this character was pretty much dormant inside...
...Lloyd Webber's most inspired choice is his new lyricist, Jim Steinman, the veteran rock composer (Bat Out of Hell; Total Eclipse of the Heart), whose fevered, hyperbolic lyrics have unlocked Lloyd Webber's long-dormant rock tendencies. To be sure, Whistle has its share of elevator-music ballads (though you can pipe No Matter What into my elevator anytime), and the upbeat kids' number When Children Rule the World is easy to make fun of (yet still darn catchy). But the Steinmanesque angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over...
...good news is that chlamydia can be detected using a culture and completely eradicated with a short course of antibiotics. However, it is also a particularly problematic disease because it may have no visible signs or symptoms and can lie dormant for long periods of time, all the while doing extensive damage to the reproductive system. According to the Centers for Disease Control (www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/chlamydia_facts.htm) "Untreated, chlamydia can cause severe costly reproductive and other health problems.... Up to 40 percent of women with untreated chlamydia will develop PID [pelvic inflammatory disease]. ... Of those with PID, 20 percent will become infertile...