Word: fasts
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...vaccination is a great idea, even if your memory of freshman English is receding as fast as your hairline. Hepatitis B strikes more than 200,000 Americans each year and kills 6,000, making it the third most deadly vaccine-preventable disease in the U.S., after flu and pneumonia. There are, of course, other viruses that take a toll on the liver. But hepatitis A, which is transmitted via contaminated water and food (think raw oysters and salad bars), doesn't usually cause permanent damage. And there is as yet no vaccine for hepatitis C, which is transmitted during sexual...
...former chief executive of suburban Boone County is running as fast as he can away from Clinton, even though Lucas' own polls show that over the past few months, he has steadily gained on his opponent, Republican state senator Gex Williams, and now enjoys a five-point lead. Lucas is on tough terrain for a Democrat: the district voted 49% to 41% for Bob Dole in the 1996 election, and it has been represented in Congress by beloved Republican Jim Bunning, who this year announced his own bid for the Senate...
...Loop, a wolf opera set among haters of government and the Endangered Species Act in darkest Montana. She, this time out, is a wolf biologist, luscious but a doddering 29; he is a very young 18, the sensitive son of a bull-witted rancher. The kid learns fast: "He felt that her life was but the smallest flame that might be snuffed out if he were to let go of her," the author advises. The advice here is, Buy Kleenex stock...
...brash backbencher on the House Judiciary Committee in the early 1970s, Michigan Representative John Conyers was enough of an irritant to the Nixon White House to earn 13th place on the Administration's original enemies list. "Coming on fast. Emerging as a leading black anti-Nixon spokesman," presidential counsel John Dean noted next to Conyers' name. In May 1972, Conyers introduced a resolution on the House floor demanding that Nixon be removed from office for his conduct of the Vietnam War. The measure went nowhere, but Conyers kept at it for the next two years, and when the Judiciary Committee...
...Congressional Black Caucus, he could help marshal critical black support for Clinton in the House. But many Democrats fret that Conyers is too erratic and garrulous for the task--and that once hearings begin, he will be overwhelmed by committee chairman Henry Hyde. "Hyde is so smart, so fast on his feet," says a Democratic congressional staff member, "that Conyers is no match...