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...album will surprise noone except the goldfish-memoried few who persist in expecting rock to lie down in its grave. For the rest, enjoy another dose of bright-shiny anguish and riveting riffs...
...Starting next year, all rough, unpolished diamonds must have certificates to prove that they do not come from “conflict” mines. Amnesty International, OXFAM, Global Witness and other human rights groups have spent years railing against conflict diamonds because the diamonds are a double dose of misery. In Sierra Leone, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) captures mines and then forces locals to forage through the mud looking for diamonds. After extracting days of slave labor from these hapless workers, the RUF thanks the workers by hacking off their arms with machetes...
...group of leaders, like the old, believes that a healthy dose of repression is good for stability. They are also aware that repression has its dangers. Stifling opposition leaves room for the growth of official corruption and hurts the government's international prestige. So the new leaders have some reforms in mind. These include: revising the country's inequitable household registration system that discriminates against rural residents; strengthening the rules for investigating Party members who abuse their positions; and reinforcing the institutions that allow popular "supervision" of local cadres. But they have no plans to alter the fundamental character...
...offer, even dangling a separate payment at Warwick as well. The papers that had their checks returned found exquisite ways to exact revenge. As the Mirror focused on What The Butler Is Willing To Say, its competitors went after The Shocking Secrets He Wants to Keep - with a good dose of What a Rotten Guy He Is Anyway (Maybe Crazy Too). "I warned Paul that the losers would go for his jugular," says Warwick...
Such problems appeared in only "a small portion of the patients in our clinical trials," says Dr. Hjalmar Lagast, a vice president for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, which makes Marinol. He notes that the drug comes in three strengths, allowing doctors to pick the right dose. By the early '90s, at the height of the U.S. aids epidemic, many patients so preferred marijuana to Marinol that they would use the street drug regardless of legality or safety. Abrams and a few others began pushing the government to permit new studies of marijuana to find out what these patients were doing to themselves...