Word: attack
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...Bushie. "McCain is self-immolating. Why do anything but watch?" Although they have insisted all along that they had nothing to do with Robertson's phone calls on Bush's behalf, they sent out the message through surrogates that Robertson should quiet down, stay off TV and off the attack. "It's the first time in the history of Christian Fundamentalism that Jerry Falwell has said 'No comment' two days running," quipped Michael Cromartie of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. And when Falwell did finally respond, it was simply to say McCain was having...
...Bradley's best lines, talking about wanting "a different kind of campaign" that would "elevate our democracy," they thought everyone would realize that Gore was robbing them blind. Nor were they concerned when Gore started hitting Bradley's signature health-care-reform proposal. They thought that kind of attack was a vestige of the old order...
Gore's policy team found fertile ground for attack even before Bradley delivered his health-care speech. The Bradley campaign had given the Associated Press a preview, and based on that Gore was able to denounce the plan as one that was too costly, did nothing to protect Medicare for the elderly and--the fatal blow--replaced Medicaid coverage for the poor with an inadequate substitute. The plan, says a Gore adviser, let the Vice President move "from the fantasy Bradley to the real Bradley." It also demonstrated a crucial difference between the camps. Bradley advisers told TIME they...
Looking to the future, researchers would like to take advantage of some of Mother Nature's own ideas to design new chemotherapy drugs. Scientists at Vion Pharmaceuticals of New Haven, Conn., are interested in co-opting a group of Salmonella bacteria that normally attack the intestines and cause dysentery. Salmonella, it happens, also happily infect all kinds of tumors, including colon cancer. By loading genetically crippled salmonella with one of the body's own cancer-fighting chemicals (a molecule called tumor necrosis factor), researchers at Vion hope to destroy or at least shrink a wide variety of cancers. Safety studies...
REEFER MADNESS Tune in, aging hippies. Middle-aged and elderly marijuana users may increase their risk of a heart attack fivefold in the first hour after lighting up. The danger--like the high--seems to subside by the second hour. Pot raises the heart rate by about 40 beats a minute, scientists say, and this is especially problematic for folks with undiagnosed coronary disease. For someone in good physical shape, marijuana is about twice as risky...