There is a comparative vacuum on the Republican side.

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However, officials in the latter group are focused so narrowly on "safety" that they ignore the fact that because all drugs have side-effects, safety cannot be evaluated in a vacuum.

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The latter group's highly narrow focus on "safety" ignores the fact that because all drugs have side-effects, safety cannot be evaluated in a vacuum but must be part of a risk-benefit judgment.

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You had merely to lead them to the plate-glass porch door and point out a squirrel or a cat running on the railing, or the automatic pool vacuum flipping its tail in the water as it carried on, side to side, end to end.

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We'll discuss Senator Kennedy's terrorism-related argument later, but suffice it to say, he does not appear to grant any credit to the view that, like the Taliban, Saddam Hussein was on the wrong side--that we were not dealing with him in a vacuum.

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