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...crop of younger TV hosts has proved a quick study in knowing what to say and show, especially at a time when things forbidden one month may be permissible the next. View host Zakharov compares it with being "a sharpshooter. You have to wait until the right moment to hit the target. But you must learn to compromise. That is part of the new tolerance...
Diuretics are yet another group of forbidden drugs. The Bulgarian weight- lifting team was withdrawn from Seoul after two of its medalists tested positive for the diuretic furosemide. By flushing water from the body, these drugs help athletes reduce weight to compete in a particular class. They are also useful as masking agents, since along with the water, evidence of other drug use is eliminated...
...will be forbidden to perform the move at the Games because they vault onto a horse set vertically out from the launching board, making it a narrower and more dangerous target than the women's horse, which is set horizontally. But the Yurchenko is still highly risky for the women. While warming up at the Tokyo World Sports Fair in May, American Julissa Gomez bounced badly off the springboard and hit her head against the horse. Instantly paralyzed, she later lapsed into a coma in a Tokyo hospital. She is now in Houston, and it is unknown whether she will...
...That authoritative teaching left Roman Catholic couples with only two ways to limit the size of their families: 1) use the morally acceptable rhythm method, which was then so unreliable as to justify the sobriquet "Roman roulette"; or 2) follow their consciences rather than papal counsel and adopt such forbidden means of contraception as diaphragms, condoms or the Pill -- which millions...
...sexual permissiveness that has sprung up with the reforms. For years officials in Beijing tried to ward off the threat by warning unwary citizens about the evils of sex. Their efforts were ignored. These days the government permits public lectures and seminars for government workers on such previously forbidden subjects as masturbation, premarital pregnancy and sex crimes, and the talks are attracting overflow crowds across the country. "We hear much about China's four modernizations," says Shanghai Sociology Professor Liu Dalin. "We should add a fifth one: the modernization of the senses...