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...Some physicians wonder why it would be tried at all. "Theoretically, if you pressed hard enough on the thyroid, you possibly could affect secretion," says Dr. Yank Coble, an endocrinologist at the University of Florida. "But it's pretty rare. And the adrenal glands are carefully protected above the kidneys deep inside the body. To my knowledge, there is no evidence that you can manipulate the adrenals with body positions. That...
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington last week blasted FBI Director LOUIS FREEH and JOHN ASHCROFT'S Justice Department over a new wrinkle in the probe of the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. After DOJ decided to yank the investigation from outgoing U.S. Attorney WILMA LEWIS and give it to prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia, Lewis steamed that the move was "the latest gambit in an ongoing effort by Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands...
...steaming response to a decision by DOJ officials to yank the probe from her office and give it to prosecutors in Virginia, U.S. Attorney Wilma Lewis said the action was "not only ill-conceived and ill-considered, but is the latest gambit in an ongoing effort by Director Freeh to move this case from this office, which would not accede to his demands as to how the case should be prosecuted...
...Lecter's idea of just desserts. But none of these atrocities is more disquieting than that moment at the carousel--the first-ever physical contact between a cannibal of genius and his righteous pursuer. For a second we fear that crime literature's favorite mad doctor will yank Clarice aboard the carousel. Perhaps scalp her. But not here, not now. This is the briefest caress, a boyish flirtation, a threat of things to come...
There's even a root uneasiness with maleness itself in some Rude Boy culture. The Man Show theme--"Quit your job and light a fart/ Yank your favorite private part"--gives the show a pitiable, twilight-of-the-empire feeling: The patriarchy ain't what it used to be, kid, so shut up, scratch yourself, and check out the jugs on this girl...