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...safeguard the public, the Center for Science is urging an outright ban on all use of sulfites. But others note that very few ill effects are documented from sulfites in packaged foods and that there is no substitute for them in making wine. Of the twelve sulfite-associated deaths, only one was caused by wine, one by beer and one by hashed brown potatoes. The rest were all linked to fresh fruits or vegetables. Asthmatics and others who suspect they are sensitive can be tested. Those who test positive should stay away from wine. And they should...
Although Jim Villanueva's late field goal saved the tie for the visiting Crimson, that draw cost Harvard the outright Ancient Eight title that it hadn't claimed since...
Good schlock--like An American Werewolf in London or Risky Business--steps gingerly just this side of outright derision of its subjects. Bad schlock--St. Elmo's Fire--hates its characters intensely and usually ends up by offending us or making us squirm...
Quotas. No form of protectionism is more effective than outright quotas. Japan strictly limits imports of numerous goods, including leather, beef and citrus fruits. Italy in turn restricts imports of Japanese cars to a mere 2,200 a year, or less than 1% of the Italian market...
...single, however, that will probably attract the most attention and provoke the greatest response. If, as Rock Critic Greil Marcus has skeptically suggested, the recent spate of concerts like FarmAid bespeaks merely "a craze for charity," then Sun City represents a step toward outright activism. The accustomed structure for all such undertakings is present: participating musicians worked free, recording studios donated facilities, Van Zandt covered his own expenses, and Manhattan Records will donate all of the profits to the nonprofit Africa Fund...