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...critics charge that she is too tough, too reckless in her faith in U.S. military power, as when she heartily endorsed the effort that Bush had started to rebuild Somalia and that Clinton expanded to disarm its warlords, only to back down after the effort proved fatal to 18 U.S. soldiers. Which gives Clinton his crowning irony: his pick for the first female U.S. Secretary of State is both praised and attacked for being macho...
...other hand, stronger pot and higher kids lead to more reckless driving and car accidents. It is true that smoking pot is less harmful than heavy drinking and does not threaten one's life, as do addictions to harder drugs. Proselytical pot smokers love to point out that a fatal overdose would require, say, 40 lbs. of grass smoked over a period...
...Boris Yeltsin recovers from a near fatal bout with heart disease, who's the real power behind Russia's President? Most Kremlin watchers would point to a consummate political strategist named Anatoli Chubais (Choo-by-iss), the organizer of Yeltsin's come-from-behind election win last summer and the favorite of the country's influential new entrepreneurs...
...next assignment was finding the Bicentennial Commission's pamphlet on George. Its call number was US4591.290, but by mistake I searched the US 4600 aisle for two minutes. This error would nearly prove fatal. I quickly proceeded to the correct aisle and found pamphlet number three. It looked old enough to be George's autobiography, but that was the least of my concerns. Where were pamphlets numbers 1 and 2? The envelope containing number three showed signs of tampering and foul play, and I once again I suspected the work of the Communist party. I decided not to bother...
...study of New York City's black population finds that blacks who migrated to New York from the South are twice as likely to die of a HEART ATTACK as blacks born in the city. Blacks who moved from the Caribbean, however, have just half the risk of a fatal heart attack...