Word: prods
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Most consumers believe dietary supplements are safe. That's a dangerous assumption. Although prescription drugs must be proved safe by their makers, under federal law the burden falls on the FDA to prove that supplements are not safe. The FDA last week got a prod when Consumers Union (CU) warned Americans that they should avoid a "dirty dozen" that may cause cancer, kidney or liver damage, even death. The list: aristolochic acid (birthwort), comfrey, germander, androstenedione, chaparral, kava, bitter orange, organ or gland extracts, lobelia, pennyroyal oil, scullcap and yohimbe...
...drive there instead of taking a flight. Some 30 U.S. cities now operate as cruise-ship gateways, including Baltimore, Md.; Galveston, Texas; and Mobile, Ala.--roughly double the number in 2000. This year the falling dollar is expected to discourage Americans from taking European vacations and to prod Europeans to consider U.S.-based cruises. And with 85% of Americans and 90% of Europeans yet to try a cruise, it is no surprise that analysts have been upgrading their estimates of Carnival's stock price--and of the industry's prospects generally...
...American Empire) has a gift for witty dialogue but a weakness for force-feeding his story with sentiment. References to ancient holocausts and to 9/11 simply expose the intent of a director who will do anything to touch his audience--with a sweet gesture or a cattle prod. And in a comedy of manners, that behavior is very impolite. --By Richard Corliss
...need you. Historically, it’s been the youngest members of our party who most ably prod our collective conscience and embody our idealism at its rawest and purest. Many of your parents belong to the generation that helped to lead the civil rights movement when they were no older than you are now. Two decades later, in 1992, young people reversed a 20-year downward trend in their age group’s voter turnout, successfully paving the way for eight years of promise and prosperity...
...white photographs and memories of a time when checking off “White” on a Navy identification card was the ticket to a future free of racial shackles. Silk’s reinvention of his own identity is such that blame for a racial slur cannot prod him into telling the truth about his perfectly constructed life. These long years of ironic sacrifice are what Zuckerman chronicles in an attempt to weave together a Forrest Gump-like pastiche of recent American history...