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Altorki's bigger fear is that the Vioxx scare will deter researchers from doing enough work on COX-2 to understand its true role in cancer. "If we do these studies and they show no evidence of efficacy, then I'm wrong. I'll get off that train and get on another," he says. "But it's important that we find...
...Could the activity at the tunnel be consistent with a nuclear test? Yes," says the official. "Are there other potential explanations? Yes." Given North Korea's record of bluffing, "it's very possible they are pretending it's a test" so as to scare the rest of the world into offering richer economic aid in exchange for halting nuclear arms development, says Choi Jin Wook, a North Korea expert at the Korea Institute for National Unification...
...second time in a decade, energy scare stories have become the stuff of headlines: motorists who confront the prospect of a summer of gasoline shortages at $1 per gal.; homeowners who have visions of dollar bills fluttering up the chimney every time the oil burner in the basement trips on. Angry and resentful, people are blaming the one institution that not only grows richer every time there is an oil squeeze, but is as close at hand as the nearest service station: the $360 billion-a-year U.S. oil industry ... All around the U.S., the lament is the same...
...done to encourage self-reliance. "The airlines and the flight attendants underestimate the fact that passengers can be good survivors. They think passengers are goats," he says. Better, more detailed safety briefings could save lives, McLean believes, but airline representatives have repeatedly told him they don't want to scare passengers...
This interesting dichotomy may scare away some of the shows more “intellectual” viewers, but, as MacFarlane himself states: “There is that base of the brain thing, you hear a fart joke and you can’t help but laugh.” It’s tough to disagree...