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...Forbes tries a second time for the Republican Party's presidential nomination, he is rubbing a lot of those shoulders. After he settled into a black Chevrolet Suburban last June for a drive with the Rev. Louis Sheldon, the ultraconservative founder of the Traditional Values Coalition, Forbes endured an hour-long grilling. The preacher asked for Forbes' view about abortion (against), school choice (for), and the "homosexual-rights agenda" (against, but no harassment, please). "I was a doubter," says Sheldon. "The stereotype from the 1996 campaign was that Steve Forbes was clearly pro-choice and clearly libertarian." Sheldon emerged...
Since withdrawing from the presidential race 19 months ago, Forbes has been attempting to sell himself as a social conservative to religious leaders like Sheldon. That's no mean feat for a patrician publisher, but there are signs that the crusade is working. So adroitly hasForbes courted the religious right since last year's election that G.O.P. elders who once treated him as an amusing sideshow now talk of him as a comer to watch in the early stages of the 2000 campaign. "No one is laughing now," says Republican Congressman Bill Paxon...
...them too. Several states, meanwhile, have restricted the use of fen-phen. Last week the Florida legislature banned new prescriptions entirely and called on doctors to wean current patients from the drug within 30 days; it also put a 90-day limit on Redux prescriptions. Even New Jersey doctor Sheldon Levine, who touted Redux last year on TV and in his book The Redux Revolution, has stopped giving it to all but his most obese patients...
...didn't think it was a bad decision as long as their decision was about safety.... It saves money for the University, which they must like," said B. Cameron Sheldon '99, manager of the HSA Campus Store...
...University] let us know immediately. They were very helpful about it, willing to give us advice," Sheldon added...