Word: half
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...back up when one had more than two drinks each day. "One has to consider all the risks and benefits of drinking alcohol." Sure, you may get hooked on the bottle, but heart disease is the nation?s biggest killer, and sudden cardiac death (SCD) is responsible for about half of all those deaths. If a drink or two every day keeps heart rhythms regular - decreasing the risk of SCD - who are we not to take our medicine? A pity, though, that those health benefits evaporate after two belts a day - just when all the other benefits are really kicking...
...industry today has no conscience. Nor does the current cinema possess half the wit, elan and social acuity of Hollywood in the dirty '30s. Those films were more than the sum of their smirks. They were expressions of an industry scrambling for survival, like their amoral heroes for sale, and doing it in a style--raffish, dynamic, truly adult--that we've hardly seen since...
...muscle pulls the testicles up into the body and is an indicator in the fetus of male gender. Everything in the "Cremaster" series swirls dizzily from there: for him, biological destiny is a prison. Escape from it is a heroic act--in fact, a spiritual right. Thus his transmogrified, half-human creatures elsewhere; his fixation on Houdini, the impossibly malleable escape artist; and now his Gilmore, who spent the better part of his adult life in prison, only to be released into the world, where he killed and was executed by his own demand in what he imagined...
...Half-truths and evasions are a part of everyday life. We don't, like Jim Carrey, when he's unable to prevaricate in Liar Liar, lean over to our lover and say, "I've had better." Manners are deception by another name. The same is true of politics. We say we want politicians to give us the unvarnished truth, but at the end of the day we really don't want to hear a detailed history of a candidate's bathroom coke snorts any more than, say, Iowans want to hear that subsidizing ethanol is a dubious use of government...
Remember "the big disease with the little name"? Well, the bad news is that the sharp decline in deaths from AIDS that began two years ago, occasioned by powerful new drugs, has been cut in half. Some patients have struggled to get access to the drugs; others haven?t maintained the rigorous discipline required to maintain complicated daily dosing schedules of a cocktail of different pharmaceuticals; and even in many cases where the drugs have been properly administered, the virus often has proved more resilient than the medicine. AIDS researchers, doctors and activists gathered Monday in Atlanta for the National...