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...attorney general’s job is to protect public safety, not the gun lobby. Ashcroft should have told his friends in the NRA what he told the Senate: “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists...
...film. The Majestic may not be the season’s most exciting attraction, due to its cardboard cut-out plot, but nonetheless it’s worth a look—Darabont and Carrey together could very well surprise. Think of it as Truman’s Red Scare Show...
...Expect some profit-taking Thursday, for starters. And Friday, the Wall Street that may be starting to take consumer spending for granted will have to endure another (likely garish) rise in the unemployment rate for November - a number which, despite its irrelevance to actual economic progress, can scare the heck out of consumers and has sparked one or two Friday panic-sells in its time. (Like Sept. 7, for instance...
SOME NERVE Acupuncture may scare away migraines and relieve back pain, but can it fight heart disease? Maybe. A preliminary study of congestive-heart-failure patients suggests that the ancient Chinese medicine may calm the sympathetic nervous system, the network of nerves that regulates activities we're barely aware of, like pumping blood. A less reactive sympathetic system results in smoother blood flow to the heart and easier pumping...
...huge roadblock earlier on when he agreed to allow poor countries to waive the usual patent rules for life-saving medicines, facing down the powerful U.S. pharmaceutical industry. His initial pro-drug-company position was undercut when the U.S. considered breaking the Cipro patent during the recent anthrax scare...