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Representative Henry Waxman of California will be the first to heed the FDA's call for action, holding hearings before his Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. Waxman believes that "people should be allowed to smoke but not endanger others by subjecting them to secondhand smoke." Besides restricting smoking in public places, he says, the government might regulate the levels of nicotine in cigarettes and require warnings that the chemical is addictive...
...Yang (Lawrence Ng), a handsome and charismatic young scholar, marries the buxom, beautiful and prudish Yuk Heung (Amy Yip). After a comically disastrous wedding night, Mei Yang initiates his wife into the pleasures of sex. Failing to heed the advice of an elderly monk, Mei Yang leaves Yuk Heung in order to pursue a life of ordered womanizing. A pitiful Don Juan with a beleaguered Leporello, Mei Yang discovers that he is, comment dit-on, unequipped for the task. In a riotously slapstick scene, he submits to an operation in which a horse's member replaces his inadequate...
...course, whether or not the U.C. reform becomes a serious campus issue depends mostly on student interest. The poll will not necessarily be accepted willingly by the U.C. In fact, the U.C. has no obligation to heed student opinion at all--especially if students fail to express dissatisfaction over the issue to their representatives. If ignored, the Constitutional Convention committee can appeal to the administration for support in pushing through reforms, but the process need not go that...
...speed, of how to overcome those temporary difficulties that inevitably affect the lowest-paid segments of the population. I have fully resolved that we must keep on with the strategy of democratic reforms. At the same time, we will have to make certain corrections in our tactics. We must heed the signal that voters have sent...
Chastened reformers have been swift to heed the electoral message that when Yeltsin does not offer his coattails, they risk a ride into oblivion. While Yeltsin remained silent after the electoral returns, his confidant Mikhail Poltoranin warned, "Fascism is creeping in the door opened by our divisions and our ambitions." Yegor Gaidar, who heads Russia's Choice, the largest reformist party, and is architect of Yeltsin's economic reforms, was more blunt, calling upon the three reformist parties to "lay aside all ambitions and disagreements" to forge a "united front...