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...mighty surplus takes away the conservatives' most powerful weapon. In the campaign to roll back the welfare-state programs they hated, the deficit was an all-purpose weed whacker. Year after year, Republicans lived without big new tax cuts in return for the Democrats' giving up any hope of new spending. In that climate of discipline, the surplus took root. But it is much harder to keep those restraints in place when the Treasury seems awash in money. And those crowd-pleasing tax cuts? Though Republicans last week proposed a new capital-gains-tax reduction, it turns out the dreamy...
...such tinkering can go awry. As even their proponents concede, spliced genes, like any other genes, can be picked up by wild species. The fear is that they will create what geneticist Norm Ellstrand of the University of California at Riverside, calls "a weedier weed"--a species, such as the superweed that turned up in France when sugar beets crossed accidentally with a wild relative, that is both harder to control and more ecologically disruptive. Scientists also fear that as use of Bt crops increases, so will resistance in the very pests they're aimed at, depriving organic farmers...
...like to see those training sessions. Could it be that the ticket line is routed through an opening that measures fanny width in the way those templates that some airlines put on airport X-ray machines weed out carry-on bags that won't fit under the seat or in the overhead rack? Probably not. It's more likely that ticket takers are trained to eyeball patrons from the rear, in a swift and nonthreatening manner, and give the extra-large-approaching signal (maybe a quick puffing out of the cheeks) to an usher, who then asks, with a helpful...
...suffering from an ingrown toenail, an excuse that did not impress them. Lucy Mae Tuck, a volunteer who edits the newsletter at the Humboldt Cannabis Center, a co-op that grows the drug for medicinal use, has a physician's certificate to treat her hot flashes with the weed. Since Prop. 215 passed more than two years ago, says Police Chief Brown, "everyone we try to arrest has a recommendation from Dr. Feelgood...
...Mexican-American aunties used marijuana poultices for their arthritis," says Arcata Mayor Bob Ornelas, a ponytailed electrician. Ornelas boasts of running marathon races while high on the weed but insists, "I don't get stoned that much...