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The WP 's Howard Kurtz reports that a forthcoming book on Al Gore says that after he had three daughters, he became a devotee of the book "How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby," and subsequently fathered a son after following the book's dictates, which included drinking strong caffeinated coffee before sex.
Though Mexican law prohibits nudity of any kind on its beaches, custom dictates a spirit of tolerance here.
The lines apply to no one so well as the congressman from the 9 th District of Chicago, who must be the only politician left in the House who avoids publicity and whose style is to follow the dictates of his conscience without making a spectacle of himself doing so.
The inevitable trade-off between safety and cost, plus the law of diminishing returns, dictates that you stop well short of the highest possible standards.
A combination of Mexican and prison cultural values dictates the behavior of pintos inside prison and out on the street.