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...diet, getting plenty of exercise and losing a little weight, most people can reduce their total cholesterol levels an average of 10% to 20%. Yet that's only about half the effect of the weakest of the currently available statins. Stronger drugs, like Pfizer's Lipitor, can lop off 50%, and AstraZeneca is testing a "superstatin" that reportedly reduces cholesterol levels as much as 70%. (In each case, statins work best when a low-fat diet is adopted...
...gambit is usually used by broadcasters to lop off low-rated tail ends of ballgames or awards shows that run long. NBC argues that the trick, which has upped estimated viewership by over a million, makes for an apples-to-apples comparison, since past Olympics haven't included that half-hour (except the high-rated Atlanta games...
...trouble with capital punishment is that as a rule, we can only use one or two of these techniques on any given killer. I suppose that if we were feeling especially indignant, we might start by stoning a guy, then lop off his limbs, impale him, and finally (quick, before he bleeds to death) put him in the leaky canoe and push him out among the crocodiles. He'd get the point...
...antiglobalists, an advantage to having no head is that your enemies can't lop it off. A disadvantage is having no single voice. Though the coalition is singing one song--We Aren't the World, let's call it--it's hardly singing in harmony. Some protesters can't even agree about the purpose of the rally against the IMF. For Emily LaBarbera-Twarog, who works at the Midwest office of the Campaign for Labor Rights, the goal is "to stop the meeting from happening." For Vaughan the aim is "to give us a voice at the table...
Yeltsin gave up trying to govern years ago ?- instead, like some giddy czar in a Lewis Carroll nightmare, he simply reminds Russia of his authority every few months by rousing himself long enough to lop off the head of his government, before returning to the hospital or sanatorium. The latest victim: Sergei Stepashin, a bumbling but loyal bureaucrat who served a full three months as prime minister. Of course, with a secessionist rebellion underway in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan, there may be some good reasons for getting rid of Stepashin. After all, he authored Moscow?s clumsily brutal...