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...tranquilizing the specimen with a gentle breeze of carbon-dioxide gas from a cylinder behind the milking desk. Once the spider is groggy, the milker, peering through a low-power stereoscopic microscope, gently picks it up with metal tweezers that are connected to an electrical supply. When a mild shock is administered through the tweezers, the spider promptly spews up pretty much everything liquid inside it--including digestive enzymes. That was a problem early on, until Chuck devised a combined "mouthwash" and venom-collecting system that keeps the two fluids separated using a hollow suctioning needle and a miniature glass...
Kishline's devastating meltdown has reignited debate, and outrage, over an already controversial treatment approach. Moderation Management, which has volunteer chapters in 14 states, allows a weekly quota of nine drinks for women and 14 for men. Designed for mild-to-moderate problem drinkers, the program consists of meetings similar to those of Alcoholics Anonymous, but it has fewer rules. Participants are usually encouraged to keep a journal documenting their drinking and to limit and pace their intake of alcohol. Understandably, and perhaps wisely, since she faces sentencing next month for vehicular homicide, Kishline is now a sharp critic...
Dick Cheney, George W. Bush's running mate, has survived three (mild) heart attacks and one coronary bypass surgery. And while the appointment of the older and more experienced Cheney is being touted as adding "gravitas" to Bush's campaign, the presumptive veep candidate's health history adds a different note of seriousness that the Republican ticket may find difficult to dismiss...
...hasn't always been smooth sailing. By 1989, Cheney had suffered three mild heart attacks, and has since undergone coronary bypass surgery. However, he has had several years of robust health, and while time-consuming, Cheney's medical setbacks did not affect the path of his political career...
...Stage 1: Mild From two to four years...