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...question as they struggle to maintain their one-vote hold on the chamber: If these are such great ideas, why hasn't the Democratic Senate passed them? An in-your-face assault on Bush's economic policies would reopen one issue that national Democratic leaders have been eager to avoid: Would Democrats cancel the remaining installments...
...still at death's door, this time reportedly in an Egyptian hospital, under police guard. Yet, he somehow managed to make his way from there to Baghdad, where he appears to have remained at Saddam's pleasure until his luck ran out this week. And as if to avoid any "Elvis" effect, the Iraqis showed pictures of his body and announced he would be buried by his Palestinian comrades...
...strategy is to avoid too much negatively expressed emotion. Tough love, for example, is a good idea in principle, but in some situations it can do more harm than good, especially if it makes kids who can't control their behavior feel worse about themselves. When family arguments do break out, they need to be conducted in a controlled way. Psychology professor David Miklowitz of the University of Colorado encourages families to avoid what he calls the "three volley," a provocation followed by a rejoinder, then a rebuttal. Hold the volleys to just one or two, and you'll avoid...
...getting results like this under lab conditions and making a drug that's safe and effective are two very different matters. For one thing, nobody is going to brave a hypodermic needle just to avoid eating a third helping of tandoori chicken; yet if you put PYY in a simple pill, it will quickly be destroyed by stomach acids. For another, nobody knows what the side effects of ingesting this hormone for months or years might be. It's quite possible, as with so many other biologically active substances, that the body will quickly build a tolerance to any excess...
...certainly not a joking matter," Barr shot back, "the way Linder is treating it." Barr speculated the gun might have had a "hair trigger," so that the merest touch could have set it off. "I certainly did not pull the trigger," he asserted. All the same, he should probably avoid campaigning at any missile silos...