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...Anti-inflammatories can damage the lining of the stomach. Now, however, ARTHRITIS patients who use anti-inflammatories like naproxen, ketoprofen and ibuprofen can halve their chances of getting an ulcer if they also take a stomach-acid-reducing drug called famotidine...
...Giuseppe Di Matteo, the 11 year-old son of Santino Di Matteo, a former Mafiosi who became a government witness. Brusca allegedly first kidnapped the boy to end his father's collaboration, but when that didn't work, strangled him and threw his body in a vat of acid. "He is considered to be the most wanted of the Mafia fugitives," says Burke. "He is not at all the old type of honorable Mafia, who have rules about hurting women and children, but more of the new type of Mafioso, who are really brutal." Brusca is also accused of masterminding...
...director Jim Jarmusch is any guide, by throwing out the term "postmodern." You also make the plot and dialogue incidental, while giving such elements as setting and soundtrack full narrative weight. In a recent interview with The Crimson, Jarmusch described his latest Miramax release, "Dead Man," as an "acid Western," a term perhaps appropriate to a film which takes the Western idiom and stretches it to its most surreal limits...
...Stupid (Geffen), is rife with meaning; she's probably fingering her old record label, Imago, whose financial instability delayed this record for two years. "You pay for the hands they're shaking/ As they struggle with the undertaking/ of simple thought," she cracks on the title song. Lyrically, her acid tongue remains; musically, I'm with Stupid rates as one of the catchiest pop albums of the year, brimming with poised three-minute mini-masterpieces. Mann has the same skill that great tunesmiths like McCartney and Neil Young have: the knack for writing simple, beautiful, instantly engaging songs...
...STUPID: Aimee Mann may never sell millions of albums like today's heart-on-the-sleeve emoters Alanis Morrissette and Tori Amos, but it's an even better bet that none of them will ever write songs as captivating as the ones on her new solo album. "Lyrically, her acid tongue remains; musically, 'I'm with Stupid' rates as one of the most catchy and inviting pop albums of the year," says TIME's David Thigpen. "Mann's way with a tune is only getting better -- cuts such as 'Choice in the Matter' and the solo guitar piece...