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...couldn't win by diplomacy, and that they had better play along. By confronting the West he could convince his own people that he was fighting to relieve their suffering. The deployment of troops coincided with a new domestic austerity program, which cut each citizen's rations for sugar, rice and flour up to 50%. A UNICEF report revealed that 2.5 million Iraqi women and children were suffering from malnutrition because of the sanctions. "The feeling here is that the Americans will try to maintain the sanctions come hell or high water, to achieve their unstated objective of overthrowing...
...wider variety--hopefully we're not heading into the range of the "Chinese Food-Pizza-Donuts" places that dot the West Coast--and healthier food could well come at the expense of promise number two: taste. After all, only sugar, fat and herbs make food taste like anything. More oregano? No thanks; we'll keep the grease...
...point, Trucco and colleagues found that the microscopic intruder had triggered an overwhelming immune response much greater than what was needed to subdue the virus. Unfortunately, the pancreas is particularly vulnerable to such an assault, and much of the tissue that produces insulin -- a hormone enabling cells to use sugar -- had been destroyed...
Before MTV became the sugar daddy of rock 'n' roll, before Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder was even out of grade school, before the term alternative rock was trampled into the mud at the overhyped Woodstock '94, there was R.E.M. The , band, formed in 1980, is known for its artful, challenging music as well as its emotive, elliptical lyrics. Rather than succumbing to common-denominator tastes and releasing music that is too easily accessible, it has followed its own eccentric muse. In doing so, it set a standard for such alternative bands of the '90s as Pearl Jam and Offspring...
Legitimate objections to the Crimson Key Society do exist. For instance, the organization has been criticized for presenting a sugar-coated picture of life at Harvard. Yet the staff's position does not provide a rational critique of the society or of its policies. Instead, it takes an unsuccessful event as an excuse for some petty bashing...