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Ouchless injections? Last week Astra Pharmaceutical introduced a skin patch that numbs a kid's skin by delivering local anesthetic directly to the injection site. Called Emla and available by prescription only, it can be used on children as young as one month--and on needle-shy grownups. One downside: the patch must be applied at least an hour before visiting the doctor...
...Sources: Astra Pharmaceutical, L.P.; U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services; New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association
...European press. The manufacturer's success is owing in large part to the successful redesign of its market-leading subcompact, a car class in which the parent company has produced notable failures like the Chevrolet Chevette. The GM Europe subcompact, which goes by the names Opel Kadett and Vauxhall Astra, is now selling at the rate of 630,000 cars a year, making it the best-selling GM car in the world...
...combat jacket and an ammunition belt slung over his shoulder. Suddenly he drew his 9-mm pistol and opened fire on a mother picnicking with her two children. While the horrified tots, ages 2 and 4, sobbed by their mother's body, Ryan calmly climbed into his silver Vauxhall Astra and drove...
...French snuffbox ($150,000), a Roman glass bowl ($1.9 million), an American weather vane ($25,000), a Louis XV marquetry cabinet ($1.8 million), a Fabergé hippopotamus cigarette lighter ($55,000), a book of photographs ($100,000), a 2nd century A.D Roman head ($94,000). Per auctionem ad astra...