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...There are not many. There's the option of going to work for media outlets owned by Gusinsky's rival, oligarch Boris Berezovsky. But having criticized Berezovsky so heavily over the years, the amount of pride they'd have to swallow to go and work with him will be a real challenge to their journalistic integrity. Going to work for Berezovsky because Gazprom has taken over NTV is an incredibly tangled moral dilemma. As is staying on after having protested so fiercely against the Gazprom takeover. But these people also have to earn a living. It's not a good...
That explanation would be easier to swallow if it weren't for the many decisions pouring out of the Bush Administration that favor American business at the expense of American people. In his first 76 days, Bush declared that CO2 should not be regulated as a pollutant, and followed that up by abandoning the Kyoto global environmental accord, on the grounds that it lets developing nations off the hook. Bush substituted nothing for a framework that, however imperfect, took years to construct. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman has no legs left to be cut out from under her. Then...
That may be hard for doctors to swallow, but Goodheart's patients in his Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich., center swear he gets results--as do the patients of thousands of applied kinesiologists worldwide who now practice his techniques...
Second, pass it quick. Last week the administration labored mightily to get the tax measure passed before anyone knew what would be cut to pay for it. Thanks to Sen. James Jeffords (R-Vt.), the Senate didn’t swallow it whole, but the bait-and-switch almost worked...
...happy and partake, except of the forbidden fruit, has always been a hard message to swallow," writes David Courtwright in Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World, in an attempt to summarize a potentially fatal flaw of human nature. Courtwright examines every historical detail of the development of drugs: their discovery, whether accidental or man-made, and their evolution and use in society. He cleverly toys with our present-day notion of the term "drug," examining a range of products that includes the illegal substances such as cocaine, marijuana, opium, as well as certain legalized substances...