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...OVERHEATING Don't apply rubbing alcohol to the skin to cool down. This closes the pores and makes it more difficult for the body to get rid of excess heat. Similarly, even cold drinks that contain alcohol or caffeine make it tougher for the body to cool off. Get to a cool place and stick with cold water and sports drinks. Heatstroke, in which the victim loses consciousness, requires immediate medical attention...
...right to pass legislation by ballot vote, was a populist reform inserted into the state constitution 100 years ago. These changes assumed a responsible electorate and a powerful, corrupt political class. The first assumption was overly romantic and the second overly cynical. Today California suffers from an excess of democracy and a dearth of citizenship. In the past 25 years--starting with the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, which limited the increase in property taxes to 1% per year--California has passed a slew of myopic, half-witted ballot initiatives that have pretty much paralyzed the political process...
...right to pass legislation by ballot vote, was a populist reform inserted into the state constitution 100 years ago. These changes assumed a responsible electorate and a powerful, corrupt political class. The first assumption was overly romantic and the second overly cynical. Today California suffers from an excess of democracy and a dearth of citizenship. In the past 25 years-starting with the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, which limited the increase in property taxes to 1% per year-California has passed a slew of myopic, half-witted ballot initiatives that have pretty much paralyzed the political process...
...strategy to slash imports. When he signed the Energy Security Act into law in June 1980, Carter said it would "encourage production of 2 million bbl. a day of synthetic fuels by the year 1992." That didn't work either: synthetic-fuel production ended up slightly in excess of zero, and oil imports totaled 6.9 million bbl. a day that year...
...reacting quickly if problems arise. "We don't want to do anything that increases the risk patients face," McClellan says. "We're the gold standard for safety, and we're going to stay that way." It all adds up to big changes in an industry prone to speculative excess. Given the sharp run-up this year, Weisbrod's hedge fund has cut its biotech holdings a third, and six top executives at Genentech recently sold $36 million of the company's stock. The relatively stodgy feel of the Biogen-IDEC deal has still other growth investors running for the hills...