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Ephedra not worth the risk WHEN BALTIMORE Orioles pitcher Steve Bechler died from heat stroke in February after taking an ephedra food supplement, Major League Baseball players should have gotten the mess... How to make medicine worse IN A FROTHY display of populism, the House wants to allow consumers to shop for cheap prescription drugs from other countries. Discount pills is a vote-winning issue, but the mo... Privacy revolution is here THE BACKERS of the California financial privacy initiative, Californians for Privacy Now, have a message for the Legislature: "We are ready to go and the moment has come." Armed... A FANTASY LEAGUE IN TERRORISM FUTURES Editor -- A government-sponsored terrorist-themed futures market is a jackpot idea. At last our nation's elite can prosper from their sinis... more reader opinions The Politics of Dissatisfaction A Davis recall is not good for Republicans When conservatives gather to talk about liberals and their failings, one of the less incendiary terms we apply to those individuals is "goo-goo," short for good government. This... The Politics of Dissatisfaction Republicans should recall principles, not Davis The nation's most frenzied electoral battle since the 2000 presidential election -- the effort to recall Gov. Gray Davis -- offers dramatic evidence that the GOP is intellectual... Open Forum Submissions		More from Chronicle columnists: Ken Garcia, Ruth Rosen, Joan Ryan, Debra Saunders. Syndicated Columnists Theology, not opinion George F. Will, Washington Post Writers Group Mark Morford Skanky Hot Strippers Of Love Because there's nothing like an epic ritual bachelor party to give life some true perspective ... Harley Sorensen How Davis Could Stop Recall Madness America's Founding Fathers in Philadelphia (not to be confused with the latter-day Fondling Fathers of Boston) knew what they were doing when they set up a representative democracy. ... Adam Sparks Is There An Affordable Doctor In The House? My dad, the sole breadwinner in the family, was a union baker. During the 1950s, I was raised in a tenement in New York's Spanish Harlem,... Emil Guillermo Take Me Out To The Ball Game? All of a sudden, George Bush the gunslinger finds himself in the 'Not OK' corral. What's all this talk about getting bad intelligence ...

Sunday, July 27, 2003 Edition John Muir with an attitude Tim Holt "Fishing brings you face to face with Nature at both her wildest and most nurturing. . . . All of us are Nature's children, and owe her for our lives." - This from someone who l... Lost continent The U.S. ignores a region in crisis Abraham F. Lowenthal It is hard to get anyone to focus on Latin America. The region has no "rogue states." No Latin American country has been pronounced part of the Axis of Evil. And the region has ... Lost continent Latin America's 'new' recipe tastes just the same Alvaro Vargas Llosa A new leadership is in power in Latin America. The President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and the President of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, are its two symbols. Their vis... BITES Good week for -- Paul Bremer: Man has a plan for Iraq, but what's with the boots and suits? -- Jessica Lynch: Hero's welcome home in W. Va. -- Kevin Shelley: Secretary of state'... CHRON QUIZ Go phish Marshall Kilduff Pick one: 1 What's phishing? A. Concert-following habits of fans of rock group Phish B. Internet term for scams to steal credit card data C. Word for researching new Ben and Jer... FASHION The Perils of Peekaboo / America's teen peep show: Has 'slutware' gone too far? J.A. Getzlaff On a bustling Saturday afternoon a silent, generational war started at Abercrombie & Fitch, the teen retail clothing store in the San Francisco Shopping Centre, an urban mall at... PAPER TIGERS Decisions, Diplomacy and Dads TWO CENTS Where will the United States go to war next? AFRICAN DICTATORS Brutality Is More Than Cannibalism / Idi Amin isn't just a punch line James Lileks Even as he neared death, Idi Amin sprang back to life in the headlines. At midweek he was reported to be in a coma in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, where the former Ugandan dictat... SEX ED Ignorance Is Not Bliss / Flesh-and-blood teenagers abstain from abstinence Mary Jo McConahay As a crew mom -- that's like a soccer mom for kids who row -- I spend a lot of time listening to teenage girls in the car, and I can tell you the issue of abstinence-only sex ed... TOTAL RECALL Fear and Loathing in the Capitol City / Will Davis be forced to resign? Tony Quinn The big political story this summer might not be the budget crisis, but the resignation crisis. Although Democrats did everything they could to slow things down, the recall is s... TOTAL RECALL Fear and Loathing in the Capitol City / Power and power vacuums Martin F. Nolan He often described himself as "a raging moderate" who promised to "govern from the center." The 37th governor of California, therefore, has every right to feel that he has kept ... Sleeping with the enemy in El Salvador Curt Hopkins Luis stood in the garden of his house in the hills above Guatemala City poking the coals of a barbecue with a pair of tongs. Above the brick walls, crowned with a double roll of... More Sunday Insight