Word: effective
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Meeropol, whose parents were executed when he was six years old, emphasized the devastating effect of the death penalty on the families of the prisoners...
...Whitman, a longtime friend of Forbes, said his flat-tax plan would have a better chance of being a part of the GOP platform if Forbes would withdraw from the race. Gingrich said Buchanan is only hurting himself be remaining in the race. "The longer Pat campaigns, the less effect he's going to have. He's made his point. People understand his message. Now it's time to be part of the team." For their part, Buchanan and Forbes vowed to stay in the campaign until the convention.U.S. Seeks Peaceful Resolution In TaiwanTAIPEI, TAIWAN: Even as the United States...
...about 2 mg in each cigarette--of nicotine, a compound the U.S. Surgeon General in 1988 deemed an addictive drug. But is nicotine alone what hooks people on tobacco? Apparently not. According to a new report, smoking may exert yet another powerfully addictive influence, one that enhances the effect of nicotine in what a leading researcher calls a "diabolical synergism...
...synergy at work, according to Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "Every substance that is addicting leads to an increase in dopamine levels in the brain," he says. That may help explain why people who abuse one substance so often abuse another. Fowler likens the effect to creating a biochemical pathway or channel: "A drug may leave an imprint in the brain, so that the next drug becomes more pleasurable than it would otherwise." In short, the brain gets into a rut that just grows deeper and deeper...
...delicious to hear Rush Limbaugh, of all people, explaining that Pat Buchanan is not a "Republican" at all--he's a "populist." And Rush evidently means this to be a criticism! Buchanan's populist demagoguery, deplorable as it is, has had the healthy effect of separating the Republicans from the populists, and of exposing the Republican Party's own populism as a sham. When institutions they and their traditional business allies control are at stake, it is suddenly "anti-American" to be "anti-institutional...