For Chicago, he has probably been a healthy antidote to the hyper-kinetic Sir Georg Solti, who was there for 22 exciting years.

The collection of moments served as a healthy antidote for complaints that even the sports world's best All-Star Game is in trouble.

But in a country where recent Presidents have styled themselves Jimmy and Bill, a Doctor may simply be a healthy antidote.

Now, she says, she is able to laugh about her feelings , adding, "Humor is a healthy antidote for cancer."

Self-criticism and confession are healthy antidotes to journalistic hubris and the only acceptable response to error.

Bread and Puppet Theater may have had more compelling productions in the past, but it remains a healthy antidote to the perils of lock-step thought.

The author's emphasis on the extent to which the trial turned on particular facts, rather than sweeping principles, makes a healthy antidote to the inflated symbolism many would derive from the case.

Mr. Drake's book will serve as a healthy antidote to that tendency.

With its emphasis on the little people and its agrarian roots, Southern populism also serves as a healthy antidote to the money-driven influence of corporations and Wall Street.

In earlier centuries, the composer's efforts to defend himself against virtuoso excesses were a healthy antidote.