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...said he hoped people realized that he was no longer a radical bomb-thrower but was now firmly in the American mainstream. "Three years ago I was booed off the Oscar for daring to suggest that we were being led to war for fictitious reasons," Moore said, recalling the night in 2003 when he accepted the Oscar for his documentary Bowling For Columbine and made headlines with an anti-war outburst that ended with the proclamation "Shame on you! Shame on you!" directed at President Bush. Moore said that today "70% of the country agrees with [that sentiment]. They...
Credit Dan Quayle for enduring the ridicule that opened the mainstream debate over whether fathers matter in families. In the year since his famous Murphy Brown speech, social scientists have produced mounting evidence that, at the very least, he had a point. Apart from the personal politics of parenting, there are larger social costs to reckon in a society that dismisses fathers as luxuries...
...Herbal Healing Dr. Sanjay Gupta warned of the side effects of herbal supplements, but herbal therapies and mainstream medicine have long been successfully integrated in Germany [June 4]. Since 1999, the English translation of the herbal equivalent to the Physicians' Desk Reference has been available in the U.S.: The Complete German Commission E Monographs. Scott S. Smith, West Hollywood, California...
...Herbal Healing Dr. Sanjay Gupta warned of the side effects of herbal supplements, but herbal therapies and mainstream medicine have long been successfully integrated in Germany [June 4]. Since 1999, the English translation of the herbal equivalent to the Physicians' Desk Reference has been available in the U.S.: The Complete German Commission E Monographs. Scott S. Smith, WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA...
...study also finds that rates are highest among sex workers, IV drug users and men who have sex with men - a pattern more similar to that of the U.S. than that of Africa, where the disease has spread from the fringes into mainstream society. "The fear is that with high rates in certain groups that will still happen here," says Alexander. "My big concern is that a complex epidemic is being reduced to a soundbite...