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...human terms: the common cold is a godsend, the greatest benefactor to the working stiff since the advent of the boring job. It's technically an illness; in reality it's a universally acceptable excuse to declare yourself hors de combat and take a day off from work. Wipe out the common cold and you rob millions of Americans per week of their sacred rights not only to malinger without fear of retribution but actually to win sympathy while doing it. Nobody knows better than the American working stiff that the nonmalingering life isn't worth living...
...worth examining why he claims to have changed his mind. In February, when Bill Bradley, his primary opponent, proposed tapping the reserve to aid homeowners, Gore said the move wouldn't help boost supply, because if oil-producing countries retaliated by cutting production, "they'd wipe out any impact from releasing oil from that reserve." Gore now argues that circumstances have changed. The OPEC nations, he said last week, "pledged to increase oil production, and they have not." But the Clinton Administration says OPEC is now producing 3.5 million bbl. a day more than it did last March...
...crude oil into the system won't help since refineries are already operating at 95% capacity, and not enough crude can be turned into heating oil to make a real difference by winter. Besides, if oil-producing countries cut back supply in response to the U.S. release, they will wipe out its impact. Bush maintains the reserve should be used only in a true crisis. He agrees that the government should help low-income elderly with their heating bills, but he proposes no other short-term way of bringing down prices, other than to argue that he would be more...
...school and they just practice all day to escape their misery. I'd choose freedom over a gold medal any day." Whatever. I certainly wouldn't. Gymnastics is all about contortion, stunted growth, hopeless oppression and tears shed for the sake of the cameras. As soon as we wipe those "normal, healthy" smiles off our girls' faces with an iron fist and a no ice-cream policy, I have no doubt they'll quickly return to the coveted podium spots...
There remains the possibility, however slight, that despite the column inches dedicated to Survivor winner RICHARD HATCH's nudist lipidian foibles, we don't know everything about him. For his part, Hatch is endeavoring to wipe out these pockets of ignorance. "I didn't have liposuction," says Rich about his new svelte-ish physique. "But if you saw that flopping around stuff on the last episode--I had that removed. It's called resection, and it's skin that could not retract from having lost more than 140 lbs. It had been stretched past the point of healthily ever being...