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...When I strain a muscle, it's very different from when you strain a muscle," Michael Johnson explains unnecessarily. "You can go to work limping...
...Republican foreign policy, as ever, is a strong defense. But many of the principles enunciated by Rice and other sober GOP internationalists may be sharply challenged by the party's relentless determination to build a comprehensive missile defense system, which will dramatically increase tension with Russia and China and strain relations with Washington's European NATO partners. (Come on, guys - you know the reason they're opposed is the system's impact on the strategic balance, not because Clinton hasn't done a good job of selling it to them, as Governor Bush regularly implies...
...that means that the hosts' personalities were critical. Regis, of course, inspires his own breed of adoration or animosity, but those reactions are based more on his hyper-critical (and sometimes just plain hyper) personality, or perhaps a strain of "Millionaire"-inspired Regis overload. With Kathie Lee, it's different: When you get right down to it, there is something disconcerting about her. No, actually, that's not true at all. There are many, many disconcerting things about her - not the least of which is her single-minded conviction that the American people deserve to experience her presence as often...
...more presentable (or getting rid of them completely) and convincing wary Republicans that it's OK to venture onto the streets of one of the nation's most staunchly Democratic cities. It's about proving to the rest of the country that a midsize city with a determinedly parochial strain and a troubled history is up for showcasing a national political convention with a healthy dose of style...
...question we still need to resolve," muses neurogeneticist John Hardy of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., "is, What is the relationship between beta amyloid and tau?" That is why Hardy and others are so excited by the new strain of transgenic mice that scientists are breeding. By crossing mice that develop tangles with mice that develop plaques, they should finally be able to provide scientists with a research tool they've sorely lacked: lab animals that closely approximate the disease in humans...