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...point out that "quality-of-life drugs are gene-based just like those for serious medical conditions. In areas like impotence, aging skin, baldness and obesity, the science is just as profound as if you were working in cancer, asthma or anti-infectives." In other words, Viagra is sober stuff and not at all akin to Sy Sperling's Hair Club...
...sloppy drunk, but who wants to run into this guy on the road? A quarter of the 17,000 drunk-driving deaths in 1996 happened at .08 or less; impairment starts as low as .02. The drinking lobby admits that at .08, even though you're not sober, you're sober enough to choose not to drive. An industry member at a state hearing argued that a couple of drinks "might improve driving ability." The Republican-controlled House Rules Committee, legislating under the influence of liquor-lobby money (nearly $17 million since 1987; Speaker Newt Gingrich got the most), killed...
...other hand, Clinton was able to avoid public discussion of the latest White House scandal simply by appearing in sober settings with people like Nelson Mandela. Lacking protective schedulers, I was not able to do the same--which hardly seemed fair, since I'm the one who definitely hadn't done anything wrong...
...suspected. As Gingrich crisscrosses the country selling Lessons Learned the Hard Way, a contrite new book about his tumultuous first three years as Speaker of the House, he is telling audiences and readers alike that he has metamorphosed from the tantrum-prone revolutionary of 1995 into a sober leader who has finally figured out how to run Congress. And by dropping into bookstores in New Hampshire last week and Iowa this week (both early-primary states), he is hinting strongly at a run for the White House. But what Gingrich is really after...
...when a corporation is not in danger of failure, it is morally acceptable to sacrifice jobs for profit. This is original and useful. But it needs to be couched in a mature treatment of the issues. Even if his confrontations with corporate representatives are only slightly more interesting than sober Geraldo reruns, at least Moore shows the ubiquity of job loss and corporate apathy--in every city Moore's book tour leads him to, he has no trouble unearthing some corporate atrocity that the rest of us took for granted. The movie climaxes in a rare interview between Moore...