Word: effective
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...SPEAK UP Those who not only join network groups but also stand and deliver before them are in effect advertising their expertise. Wisnik, for example, conducts legal training seminars through the United Jewish Appeal. Attorneys pay a fee to attend the seminars, which raise money for the charity, and Wisnik benefits through client referrals. But what really keeps her going is gratitude. The u.j.a. paid for Wisnik, her parents and her brother to emigrate to the U.S. from Poland 30 years...
...language is cruel; the effect, disquieting. Despite Jay's determination to expose himself in all his naked ugliness, his earnestness dissolves into an almost comical self-obsession, which is quite different from self-knowledge. He decides, for instance, that he must keep a record of his departure so that he can understand it. "I want an absolute honesty that doesn't merely involve saying how awful one is," he explains. "How do I like to write? With a soft pencil and a hard dick--not the other way around." One wonders why Susan didn't leave first...
Cellasene contains, among other things, extracts of Ginkgo biloba, sweet clover and bladder wrack (a seaweed). It arrived in U.S. drugstores last week and got lots of attention on TV news shows. Yet experts say there's no solid evidence that Cellasene has any beneficial effect on cellulite. The pill's 15 minutes of fame provides a lesson in the power and perils of hype...
...recent New York history is any guide, none of us will live to see the resolution of this. The one comfort we can take as we go to our rewards is that this argument, being purely symbolic, will presumably have no effect on traffic...
DIED. SIDNEY GOTTLIEB, 80, eccentric chemist who ran some of the CIA's most shadowy operations, including the agency's infamous mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s; in Washington, Va. Gottlieb once said the paucity of U.S. knowledge on the effect of drugs "posed a threat of the magnitude of national survival" to explain the existence of MK-Ultra, a program that mandated dosing unsuspecting citizens with...