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...Some people, namely the Republicans under Newt Gingrich, want to reduce Pell Grants by 40 percent," Kerry said. "Some people think it's okay to cut the Drug Free Schools program...
...previous teachers had been classically trained. Improvisation was really, really fun, and none of my teachers were ever willing to introduce me to that. I went to this teacher and at the first lesson he was like 'Okay, play over this' and just popped in a tape of a rhythm section playing a blues progression. It was so much fun. Introducing that element of music--fun--was new. Before that my teachers had been like 'okay, play your scales,' which you have to do and it's good that they told me to do that," he says...
...delays and cautiousness were FDA hallmarks long before Kessler arrived. His defenders say he has made every effort to speed things up. Even while acknowledging that some approvals still take too long, Kessler points out that the time it takes the agency to okay a new drug is about 19 months, down from 33 months in 1987. In fact, the FDA's responsiveness to aids and certain life-threatening diseases has surprised some early skeptics. Five of the six antiviral drugs used to treat AIDS were first approved in the U.S. The anticancer drug Taxol, the first multiple sclerosis drug...
...OKAY, NO MORE JOKES ABOUT FECAL URGENCY AND ANAL leakage. It's mouth-feel time. We have been standing around, five slightly nervous Time journalists who have volunteered to taste potato chips cooked in olestra. Because the stuff has not been approved by the FDA, each of us has signed a Procter & Gamble "informed consent" release, which we notice with some discomfort bears the 800 number of a doctor to call in case of emergency. This fellow, whose name is Sweeney, will chopper in with a medevac team if something goes wrong. Or so we assume...
...story--in verse, no less--about being captured by cowboys: "The Cattle Boss growled as he told me to sit/ 'We need a new cowboy. Our old cowboy quit./ We could sure use your help. So what do you say?'/ I thought for a minute, then I told him, 'Okay.'" Great illustrations--funny, but not cutesy--by the author, who has drawn his buckaroos without a six-gun in sight...