Word: controller
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...almost sounds too good to be true: Waltzing in and snapping up birth control pills from your local pharmacy's shelves - without going through the rigmarole of the gynecologist's appointment, the prescription drop-off and pickup, the calls for refills. Happily for American women, the Food and Drug Administration is considering making that fantasy a reality by allowing birth control pills and a few other prescription drugs available over the counter...
...Women would pay less for off-the-shelf pills. Of course, pharmaceutical companies would lose out, as would gynecologists, whose patients' visits would be dramatically curtailed. With opponents who pack a lobbying punch like those two do, it's not hard to see why previous attempts to make birth control pills more freely available might have hit a brick wall...
...control you'll eventually persuade government you need will be the same control that stops all free speech, yours as well. All speech ? Internet, TV, radio and written ? should not have a place in the major media without balance and investigation. People can write and say what they want, but the public has to be free from unchecked, destructive rhetoric. To continually give radical gays the freeway to force their view of life on the general population and then want to silence talk radio is hypocrisy, intolerance and hatred of a magnitude that only Hitler would understand...
...Ghana's capital 2. Indonesia's President, who has won a reprieve 3. Grid great Young, who is retiring 4. Ain't right? 5. HBO competitor 6. Where Jekyll became Hyde 7. Skinhead group: __ Brotherhood 8. Kind of bonding 9. Rebels have seized control of the capital of the __ Islands 10. Gov't agency banning pesticide chlorpyrifos 11. Tussaud's medium 16. She's at odds with 45-Down over campaign fund raising 20. Name on a 1973 decision 22. Beatnik home 23. Gore is proposing a $30 billion __ care program 25. Folk singer DiFranco 26. Mardi Gras figure...
...immediate danger is that the greater the challenge Mugabe perceives, the more desperate he becomes: The land invasions and accompanying violence began only after Mugabe lost a referendum in February that would have dramatically increased his constitutional powers. Then again, for the ZANU apparatchiks whose well-being depends on control over the state, their mauling at the polls could be taken as a cue to retire the 75-year-old strongman before he has to face the voters...