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Germans Regain Bayer Aspirin...
...German chemical firm Bayer paid $1 billion to regain the American rights to its name by buying the North American over-the-counter medicine business of Sterling Winthrop. A Bayer chemist, Felix Hoffman, developed the company's production process for its most famous product, aspirin, in 1893. Bayer lost its American patents and copyrights in 1918, when the U.S. government seized the firm's assets following World...
...have confidence in the revolution," she says softly. "I understand that the economic situation is bad, but we eat better now than when I was young. If there is a pound of rice, it is equally shared by all. Anyone can go to the hospital and get an aspirin or an organ transplant without anybody asking them for money. That's why I'm still a revolutionary...
...been waiting for a hernia operation for two years. At his day-care center, which lacks books and toys, there is no Mercurochrome for skinned knees. "All the children have colds," Ana explains. Flushed with anger, she beckons a visitor to accompany her to the nearest pharmacy. "Is there aspirin?" she demands of the clerk. "Is there flu medicine for my baby?" The answer, as always, is no. "You see!" she says. "They take all the medicine to the tourist stores, where you must have dollars...
...April 1967, months after a half-hearted suicide attempt in which she swallowed 50 aspirin, Kaysen was plunked into McLean by a psychiatrist who had met her only half an hour earlier. "You need a rest," he told her, promising a stay of several weeks. Instead she spent two years in a "parallel universe," a sorority house of sorts, but with barred windows, a ban on sharp objects and constant monitoring. "We ate with plastic," writes Kaysen of McLean. "It was a perpetual picnic, our hospital." After leaving in 1969, Kaysen continued to resist college, becoming a copy editor...