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...fact, it the show's optimistic bent that almost killed it in pre-production. Given the aura of scandal that clung to the White House in the wake of the Lewinsky debacle, producers at NBC were uncertain that the nation would swallow Martin Sheen's squeaky-clean President Barlet. All sorts of polls have shown that the average American's faith in government has slid steadily downward since Watergate. Was it possible that a public so disillusioned with its leaders could accept the portrait of a politician with a magnetic personality, a benevolent heart, and a philosophy of being...
...visit the northwestern state of Acre, the forest was burning again. Cardoso was forced to cancel his trip. Now Nepstad estimates that fully one-third of the remaining dense forest in the Brazilian Amazon will be vulnerable in the near future. The deforested area could grow big enough to swallow Alaska and California combined. And soon: during the past two decades, El Ni?os, which set the stage for fires, seem to have become stronger, more frequent and longer lasting. If this pattern holds, the next powerful El Ni?o is not far in the future...
Despite a popular misconception, seizure victims don't swallow their tongue. This is a dangerous myth; placing a bite stick or any other object in the mouth of someone having a seizure can do more harm than good...
EDIBLE SPREADABLES Here's a finding from the Netherlands that may make it easier to swallow cholesterol-busting margarines like Benecol and Take Control. Researchers report that using the plant-derived spreads once a day at lunch seems to drive down bad-cholesterol levels as effectively as consuming them three times a day. The catch: you still have to eat the spreads every day for the rest of your life...
...anonymity. (Actually, anonymity may be reserved for the lucky neighborhoods: Residents of Philadelphia's struggling Logan triangle were probably wishing for relative invisibility last week when city bulldozers started plowing the neighborhood's modest 80-year-old houses, crumbling the homes into the landfill that had threatened to swallow them for years...