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...less publicized wonders of modern medicine that the planet's most lethal toxin--the one that causes botulism in badly canned vegetables and can make a capable germ-warfare agent--now offers hope for the vain. A less messy alternative to face-lifts and chemical peels, Botox was first approved by the FDA in 1989 for the treatment of spastic eye muscles. It didn't take long, however, for doctors to discover its "off-label" cosmetic applications. Last year, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, more than 65,000 Botox procedures were performed--mostly on women...
Other people subsequently interviewed made a compelling case that some form of tear gas, rather than a lethal nerve gas, was used in Tailwind. Gary Michael Rose, who was the medic on Tailwind, spoke quietly but determinedly to TIME about his version of events. "At no time was the word deserter or any type of thing that could be alluded to as poison or toxic ever briefed during the mission briefings that we had," he said. When the U.S. planes dropped the gas, Rose said he knew that it was tear gas rather than a nerve gas. "It burned like...
However debatable their effectiveness in practice, concealed-carry laws appeal to citizens grown skittish over lethal violence--if only because measures to restrict access to weapons don't seem to have ended the bloodbaths. Last month the Missouri legislature put a concealed-carry referendum on next April's ballot, and lawmakers in Michigan are scheduled to vote on a similar measure soon. "Carrying a gun does not guarantee you won't get hurt," says Suzanna Gratia Hupp, a Texas legislator who crusaded for her state's law, "but it changes the odds." Many Americans will take them...
...teammates out of the league, but he gave the young, gifted, hungry Pippen a rare daily clinic. The equation was always simple: if Pippen could guard Michael, then he could guard anyone in the league. It was in the end the combination of these two players that was so lethal on defense, of Jordan with the player who, he said, was like having a twin brother with him on the court...
...Brown? Just nine seasons, offense only. Jim Thorpe? More legend than accomplishment. Jack Nicklaus? Sorry, but golfers, like tennis players and decathletes, don't have to suffer flying elbows, inside sliders or other lethal moving objects. Hockey has until recently attracted only athletes from colder regions. There has simply never been an athletic accomplishment on the scale of Jordan...