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...That screaming, raucous pit that is the Chicago Board of Trade's public face could go the way of $40 per trade commissions if members vote tomorrow on a proposal that would radically alter the exchange's 'open outcry' system by augmenting it with an electronic, paperless trading system...
...drug that changed Zebroski's life is just one of a new class of medications that could radically alter the way in which pain is treated in the U.S. Each year 7,600 Americans die from internal bleeding caused by long-term use of NSAIDs. The new drugs, called COX-2 inhibitors, relieve pain just about as well as aspirin and its cousins but seem to have no serious side effects. With visions of $5 billion or more in potential sales over the first five years, drug companies are racing to get their own versions of these superaspirins to market...
...exercise. In the self-proclaimed "Smash Hit Musical," Disney works hard to prove that, as with everything else, it can put on a really pretty show with many dazzling special effects and less than 10 percent new material. Hey, if it succeeds in one form, one needs only alter the package a little to make it instantly popular again, right? While one would hope that this isn't true, it is. By the conclusion of the two-and-a-half hour musical that's the same (line for line) as the movie, with a few new pitiously cliched songs...
...knows everything. I don't mean she knows I stay up past midnight or don't pay my library fines. I mean she knows I smoke, I drink, I alter my mind, I didn't wait until marriage--stuff that makes the parents reach for the smelling salts or the shotgun, depending on the household, the guilt of impersonating the angelic 18-year-old before my parents had been the only shadow over my heady new discoveries. But I was torn between the attraction of filial honesty and the terror of parental persecution...
That steamy story line contrasts with the romantic fantasies and crusty musings of Don Rigoberto, an antisocial anarchist and cultural conservative who sounds like another overheated Austrian, the Belle Epoque critic Karl Kraus. Or perhaps Vargas Llosa's alter-Egon, used to seduce the reader. Rigoberto coos about the fleshy pleasures and fulminates against vulgarity and cant. He dismisses all art described as "brilliant" and rejects all ideologies as "leveling forms of oppression that are generally worse than the despotisms against which they rebelled...