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...COVERED BY ANY H.M.O. Snake oil salesmen, beware. The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices in Minneapolis features 200 years of scientific chicanery, including a male "corset'' that generated a small shock to enhance the wearer's love life and the Nemectron, right, a gadget that supposedly overcame age's ravages, cured acne and lifted fallen arches...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Forget about terrorism, nuclear bombs or chemical weapons. When it comes to threats to U.S. security, nothing sends more shivers down American spines than the brown tree snake. Or so says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, who described the non-poisonous reptile from Guam as a "major disaster looming across the Pacific, pointed at Hawaii and perhaps the southern United States." The slippery villains, who now inhabit Guam at the rate of 2,000 to 3,000 snakes per acre, are "everywhere," an excited Babbitt told a Senate budget hearing. They are wiping out native plant species, putting power...
There, eight years later, novelist Atwood takes up her story. Early in her stay Marks had panicked at the sight of a doctor--the same one, she concluded, who had dissected McDermott--and screamed uncontrollably. She was removed to an insane asylum--"mad as a snake," it was said--and subjected to a regime of cold baths and strait waistcoats. She endured this and was returned to the prison. Staying sane here, she says to herself, is like hanging over the edge of a bridge: you aren't moving anywhere, but it takes all your energy. A young doctor visits...
...shares of Wired Ventures stock, recently declared worthless. So what? Denounce Louis and Wired just because Wall Street's skepticism forced him to withdraw his public stock offering for the second time? This I will not do--though others in the press have, mistaking bad timing for snake oil, confusing hubris for venality...
...same time." Weeks later, though, Dole intimated to a vanquished rival from the primaries, publisher Steve Forbes, that he was still not altogether convinced. When they met in late May, Dole admitted being impressed by the excitement Forbes had aroused preaching a flat tax--which Dole had publicly called "snake oil." But, said Dole, to sell his own tax plan effectively he still needed to "internalize...