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Where has the fine art of the insult gone? there was a time in Europe when the cutting gibe was a respected weapon in political discourse. Lady Astor, Winston Churchill's nemesis, once said to him: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee." Churchill didn't demand an apology or file a human-rights complaint. He just shot back: "And if I were your husband I would drink it." But these days we get the insult without the art, and so we respond with self-righteous outrage. Last week, when a German Member...
...Thai national was busted in Bangkok not with conventional explosives but with a potential dirty-bomb ingredient, cesium 137. This followed a seizure in Bangladesh on May 30 of a stash of radioactive uranium. Now, an unheralded arrest reveals that terrorists may be experimenting with yet another deadly agent: poison...
...Kuala Lumpur suburb. Alias, they claim, was a member of the militant Islamic group Jemaah Islamiah (JI). Police say he led them to an oil-palm plantation where a cache of chemicals was buried, including an unspecified amount of sodium azide, a powder that can be used to make poison gas. "When mixed with water, acid or metal, it changes rapidly to a highly toxic gas," says a Malaysian-government chemist. "The gas can be fatal...
...Beyond" described some new methods of cosmetic surgery [HEALTH, May 19]. You called Cymera perhaps the "creepiest substance" being used to fill wrinkles because it is made from the skin of human cadavers. I ask which is creepier and probably more dangerous: Botox, short for botulinum toxin, a paralyzing poison, or natural human skin? As a physician, I have to ask myself if it is ethical to spend time and money on cosmetic, forever-young potions when disorders like obesity, hypertension and cancer plague our society. J. GREGORY RIDGWAY, D.O. Yuma, Ariz...
...that's the current average--actually agree to answer questions. One wonders if that 5% is a certain type of citizen--a lonely one, perhaps. One wonders about the 19 in 20 who hang up the phone. What do they believe? Focus groups are more reliable, but they are poison to spontaneity. They can tell a candidate a lot about what the public thinks it wants to hear but nothing at all about how to lead. And the public has begun to catch on. "People understand what shrink-wrapped language sounds like," says Bob Shrum, who was Gore's consultant...