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...President to punt the problem to the next occupant of the Oval Office. And, of course, the urgency of the decision had been created by the assessment that North Korea would be in a position to rain missiles on U.S. cities by 2005 - an assessment that has been pooh-poohed by many inside the administration and intelligence community, as well as European NATO members, China and Russia. Clinton may be given more wiggle room on the politically popular program next week when the nation's intelligence agencies meet to reassess North Korea's capability, as well as the expected fallout...
Somewhat unconvincingly, Venter now denies he was ever racing the HGP. "To me it's really a race to impact people's lives," he says. Collins, who has been pooh-poohing the idea of a race, insists in an almost perfectly crafted sound bite that "the only race involved here is the human race...
...little harsh, yes, but that's my stepmom. I pooh-poohed her advice at the time, but since I've been in New York it's come to mind time and again, and I have to say that I value it a little more after living here for two weeks and developing my own spin on the Central Park incident...
Five short days ago, both men were pooh-poohing the idea that police stood idly by as perhaps as many as 37 women were sexually assaulted in Central Park during the drunken, hot aftermath of the June 10 Puerto Rican Day parade. But after five days of unwelcome, outraged national media attention, both men had cast aside their cavalier attitudes and were miraculously transformed into the urban equivalent of white knights, galloping in (albeit a few days late) to save their city and its women from bands of marauding molesters...
...kids watch, leading to the inevitable--an earnest Harvard study. Normally, I'd rather have the Roadrunner drop an anvil on my head than endure another research paper on violence permeating the media--especially one that views with alarm Tigger's playful bowling over of Winnie the Pooh. But as I read the Harvard report, I found that it offers a useful reminder: many popular animated videos contain violence that shouldn't be emulated and scary scenes that young viewers need to have explained to them by adults...