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They say that “the pen is mightier than the sword” and that “terrorism is the weapon of the weak.” Put ’em together and you discover that the Crimson column is the weapon of the terrorized “little bitch”—and maybe, just maybe, I can get some retributive justice out of this...
...pain. She took up Tai Chi and learned how to breathe deeply using her abdominal muscles. These pain- management skills enabled her to lower her dosage of morphine. But Rickhoff is the first to admit she can't make it through the day without her meds, and her powerhouse weapon was Vioxx. It helped destroy any pain, any time. Last September, when she learned that Vioxx was being pulled from the market by its manufacturer because of side effects, Rickhoff began to fret. "I knew from past experience that when I'd run out of a prescription, I would start...
...three. The quest for pharmaceutical salvation is misguided to begin with, say doctors at the nation's most sophisticated pain-management centers. The lesson they have to teach us all is that chronic pain must be attacked on many fronts. Drugs are important, but they are just one weapon in the arsenal...
...Killer Fly Instead of spraying another kumquat tree with insecticide, Taiwan and Hong Kong could consider turning to Florida for an eco-friendly way to fight their recent invasion of fire ants. The Sunshine State's weapon: the PHORID FLY. Phorid larvae, almost invisible to the naked eye, burrow into the ant's head, grow and eventually decapitate it. The flies themselves are harmless to humans and animals...
...Baker wasn't being particularly diplomatic, but he was closer to the truth. As the six-party talks, which began in 2003, dragged on, the North appears to have become a greater military threat and proliferator of missiles (and possibly nuclear weapons technology) to rogue states. Underscoring the danger last week in testimony to the U.S. Congress, CIA Director Porter Goss declared that North Korean missiles have been improved to the point that one long-range version, the Taepo Dong-2, "is capable of reaching the U.S. with a nuclear weapon-sized payload...