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...first home. It was 14 years ago on another visit to the Blairs' that Hillary found out she was finally pregnant. It was the day after she went water skiing, and Jim Blair remembers how worried she got that the spills she had taken might have done something to harm the baby -- the one she took skiing last week...
...Stine, 49, who turns out a thriller a month and has 7.5 million copies of his 27-part Fear Street series in print, agrees that such books mean no harm. "Part of the appeal is that they're safe scares. You're home in your room and reading. The books are not half as scary as the real world." At the same time, Stine also implies that the real world needs embellishment; his challenge, he says, is "to find new cheap thrills" for his young readers. "I mean disgusting, gross things to put in the book that they'll like...
...other argument is that unlike their larger cousins, minke whales are so plentiful -- there are an estimated 86,700 living off the coast of Norway alone, and a total of 900,000 worldwide -- that a controlled hunt wouldn't harm the species. No less a body than the scientific committee of the IWC has decided that the minkes could indeed tolerate a limited hunt; the committee recommended that the whaling ban be partly lifted...
Republican advertising, too, has to shake its reactive tendencies. Current NRCC publicity efforts expound on the evils of greater taxation, detailing the harm that tax hikes are likely to cause. But they don't offer an alternative approach, or any indication that the Republican mantra of cutting spending first is achievable. And they don't address the standard Democratic rebuttal: Look what 12 years of lower taxes did to the economy. It's simplistic and misleading, but effective, and the Republicans don't provide a satisfactory response...
Suddenly the U.S. finds itself flexing its muscle against those who would do it harm. Persuaded that Saddam Hussein ordered the assassination of George Bush, Bill Clinton orders a missile attack against the headquarters of Iraqi intelligence in Baghdad. Meanwhile, after a five-month investigation, federal agents bust a Muslim terrorist group as it prepares to devastate New York City...