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...their players to get back in the game after concussions, and NFL players wouldn’t hobble off the field, only to get a cortisone shot so they can come back without feeling any pain. If it was “just a game,” then minor league kids wouldn’t feel forced to turn to performance enhancing drugs to keep up with their peers and get a shot at the big time. If it was “just a game,” players wouldn’t devote their lives and give...
...smokers, willpower now carries a badge: you can no longer light up in a car with a minor in it in California, or in most public places in Illinois. The most draconian measures have come in France, where it seemed cafs once had two smoking sections: one for smokers, one for heavy smokers. With a ban now in place, Paris authorities are handing out 10,000 "pocket ashtrays" to keep the streets from looking like gerbil cages...
...political pros will say Mike Huckabee should have seen the storm coming. This is always how it goes for an underdog candidate who manages to rocket suddenly to the front of the presidential pack. His opponents turn nasty. His press bus fills with predators. And every minor flub shoots through the political heavens like a lightning bolt...
...Committee and will lose half their convention delegates for violating the rules. But there may be a big payoff: Wyoming could further confirm front-runner status for Mike Huckabee and give him momentum into the Jan. 8 primary in New Hampshire - or provide Mitt Romney with his first, if minor, stop of what might be a Huckabee steamroller...
...Selected portions of the interview, which ran nearly 40 minutes, follow below. The interview began with a question about a number of minor gaffs Huckabee has made in recent weeks, including not reading about the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran a day after it was released...