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...biggest controversy arose in May when President Clinton responded to Taiwan's congressional supporters and allowed Taiwan's President, Lee Teng-hui, to visit the U.S. Clinton's foreign-policy advisers were unanimously opposed to the visit, and the Chinese treated it as an abrogation of the fundamental tenet of U.S.-China relations--that there is "one China." Enraged, Beijing retaliated by pulling out its ambassador to the U.S. "We expected a reaction," says a State Department official, "but we were surprised by its ferocity...
...hand, many scientists take issue with A.A. dogma. Says physician Stanton Peele, an addiction expert: ''Every major tenet of the disease view of addiction is refuted both by scientific research and by everyday observation.'' Treatment programs in Canada, Britain, Germany and Australia have long distinguished between problem drinkers, who consume too much alcohol but can cut back if they get help, and hard-core alcoholics, whose only hope is a lifetime of sobriety. Even the most avid proponents of abstinence admit that some former alcoholics have successfully navigated the road to moderate drinking...
...cherished tenet of sports mythology that the champion possesses kinetic genius matched-perhaps even exceeded-by an untrammeled yearning to win. The most captivating figures in our pantheon are those who fulfill their athletic promise through their passion...
...militia's friends in Washington are muted nowadays, the zealots can count on one loud voice at the state level: Colorado state senator Charles Duke, 52, a fervent leader of a movement to reaffirm the 10th Amendment and strengthen states' rights. Local rights are, of course, a militia tenet. And Duke plays up those sympathies. At a rally last week, Duke lent weight to the scuttlebutt that the government was behind the Oklahoma bombing. Though criticized, he still warned darkly of "serious allegations of government involvement" that his office is probing. "More people die from skiing every year than...
Another major tenet of the group is that AZT, the nucleoside analog drug commonly used to treat AIDS, is poisonous...