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...dental X rays. Researchers were quick to say they didn't know how radiation might affect pregnancy or whether the babies' low birth weight was due to X-ray exposure alone. Whatever the risk, say the study's authors, it's small. They recommend that pregnant women not forgo necessary dental care...
...fashion, the play was comparable to late-night cable programming in terms of sexual innuendo and scandalous content. Still, slight adjustments to the script overcome any lingering barriers of temporal culture. For example, company veteran Remo Airaldi delivers a new thoughtful and amusing prologue in rhyme. Furthermore the actors forgo the standard drone, which so often hold back productions of older material, in favor of a soothing Virginia drawl—which they generally pull...
...answer is, from us. Full public financing, also referred to as “clean and fair elections,” gives candidates the option to forgo all outside fundraising in exchange for a hefty lump sum of taxpayer dollars. To qualify for funding candidates must first demonstrate broad-based public support by collecting a pre-determined number of small contributions (under most schemes these are pegged at about $5 each). If a candidate who buys into the system is outspent by a challenger who doesn’t, she receives additional public matching funds usually of up to three...
...freely dispensing vaccine. Some House and Senate members defended the practice on the grounds they meet a lot of elderly and sick people and shake a lot of hands--despite the fact that both President Bush and Senator Kerry had announced that they, as healthy, civic-minded Americans, would forgo the shots. Only after some Republicans and Democrats protested did Congress decide to vaccinate just those at high risk and donate 3,000 leftover shots to local health services in the District of Columbia...
...BUSH: He wants to continue multinational talks with North Korea aimed at persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear-weapons program. He rejects Pyongyang's demands for talks with the U.S. alone. He has been content to let European nations take the lead in leaning on Iran to forgo nuclear arms and submit to meaningful inspections. He has proposed increased funding for research on bunker-busting nuclear weapons that could strike nuclear, chemical or biological weapons caches buried deep underground...