Word: strictly
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...Michael Bellesiles of Emory University, turned 200 years of Western tradition on its ear. Until 1850, fewer than 10% of U.S. citizens had guns. Only 15% of violent deaths between 1800 and 1845 were caused by guns. Reputedly wide-open Western towns, such as Dodge City and Tombstone, had strict gun-control laws; guns were confiscated at the Dodge City limits...
...most secretive. Journalists who call its Florida offices receive demurrals ("We're not a cult, but we can't say what we are," one was told) and a fax stating "The Foundation has a history of not seeking publicity." Foundation grantees sign a confidentiality agreement so strict that they will not even discuss the group to praise...
...much fat is too much? The American Heart Association says 30% of a day's calories. That may sound strict, but it doesn't go nearly far enough to satisfy Dr. Dean Ornish, a University of California cardiologist and dean of the eat-right-for-a-healthy-heart school of medicine. Ornish has long maintained that changes in diet and lifestyle can treat heart disease as effectively as drugs and surgery--perhaps even more so. But modest reductions in fat intake, he says, usually do your heart no good...
Ornish puts his heart patients on a strict vegetarian diet allowing for--at most--a third of the fat of the A.H.A. diet. (Patients also take part in an exercise and stretching regimen, plus meditation and group therapy to reduce stress.) Result: according to a five-year study published in 1998, patients on the Ornish regimen had lower cholesterol levels and fewer angina episodes, and in many cases they were able to avoid bypass surgery and angioplasty...
...strict environmentalists, ecotourism may be "a widely abused term which doesn't mean much anymore," in the words of Richard Leakey, director of Kenya's Wildlife Service. Certainly, having Masai Mara guides using two-way radios to speed the search for lions hardly seems in the spirit of noninvasive touring. But for all that, most critics concede that ecotourism is less invasive than forestry, mining and other forms of development. As Luis Roman, a Peruvian anthropologist working with the Matsiguenkas, observes, "To be successful with a venture like this, you need planning to make sure you don't overload...