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...long as I can remember, my father has said refined sugar and white bread are poison. As kids, we were forbidden to eat these foods. Instead we ate honey or brown sugar and German rye bread. I've always eaten like a horse, as have all members of my family, and have never been overweight. I believe any diet that eliminates these two "poisons" will be quite effective. MATHEW H. HILBING Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 22, 1999 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...Eisenhower's fits were volatile but short. Kennedy said anger was a luxury, but his 1962 negotiations with steel companies over price controls were set back when he quipped that his father was right to have called steel executives "s.o.b.s." Nixon's anger was more corrosive. He expelled pure poison on the White House tapes and had particular enemies chased by the irs. L.B.J.'s long-standing feud with Bobby Kennedy caused Johnson to descend into paranoia at times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: In This Corner... | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...poison pill," Seton says. "The administration is not going to pass a term bill with that Radcliffe money...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad and Daniel P. Mosteller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Seton Proposes Term-Bill Fee Hike | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Granted, swordfish are an especially vulnerable target, being prized as both game fish and food fish. But they're hardly the only victims of the current global lunacy, of which the motto seems to be: if it swims, hook it, stab it, poison it or blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Be the Catch of the Day? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Predictably, the American Medical Association opposes opening the Data Bank to public eyes, on the grounds that it maintains records of groundless or dismissed malpractice suits, which could unfairly poison a good physician's career. It is unclear whether Bliley has much support for his measure, which has failed to pass Congress in the past. In addition, points out TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman, the information contained in the Data Bank is largely available from other sources. "In fact," says Gorman, "the government is not always the best source of information. There are lots of reputable Internet sites and consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ouch! Doctors Howl Over Access to Secret Files | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

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