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...medical crises (brain tumor, broken back), all chronicled by the tabloids, that she comes to seem, at last, to be a gloriously vulgar principle of unsinkability. Each brush with mortality makes her more immortal. Famous in the supermarket racks for being famous - famous for being fat, or for getting thinner, famous for death and resurrection...
Some of the most promising natural wonder drugs come from compounds not usually associated with healing: poisons. Merck is marketing a blood thinner based on the venom of the deadly saw-scaled viper. A protein from another Asian pit viper is being studied because it appears to inhibit the spread of melanoma cells, and a compound called SNX-482 from the venom of the Cameroon red tarantula may lead to new treatments for neurological disorders...
...most part, however, right about now kids feel either incredibly validated and complete, or utterly worthless and pathetic. And all because of a thin or fat envelope bearing the results of an enigmatic and mysterious collection of suits and dresses' value judgement on high schoolers using a folder generally thinner than Ally McBeal's waistline as their only criteria...
Mexico was saddled with a similar problem after it received 73 used Hueys in 1997. With their older, less powerful engines, they struggled to fly in the thinner air above 5,000 ft., where most opium poppies are cultivated. And after one of the Hueys crashed in 1998, killing two crewmen, the Mexicans grounded the fleet. In fact, they never got more than a dozen of the donated choppers airborne at a time. So last September, Mexico returned the Hueys--by truck...
...would force up interest rates and slam its foot on the brake. Bill Clinton adapted; he cut spending and the deficit, thus handing over the economic reins to Alan Greenspan. Not a bad strategy, except that honest liberals must now admit that inequality is greater, the safety net is thinner, and capitalism is fiercer after two terms of Democratic occupancy of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue than it was before. Clinton trumped the Republicans. But market power trumped government power. And that mattered more...