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...Thailand cobra, which can grow to more than 6 ft., is armed with venom that paralyzes nerves and muscles and eventually causes respiratory arrest. For the past 10 years, PhyloMed Corp., of Plantation, Fla., and the Bahamian firm Coral Pharmaceuticals have been conducting clinical trials of Immunokine, a drug derived from Thailand cobra venom, on people with multiple sclerosis. Virtually nontoxic, Immunokine seems to prevent immune cells from attacking and destroying the myelin sheath that protects nerve cells...
...original version was a soca (soulful calypso), a horn-heavy, up-tempo form that is played at Caribbean carnivals across the U.S. every summer but has never really caught on. When Baha Men finally recorded Dogs, they explored beats more familiar to American audiences--throwing in some junkanoo (Bahamian festival music) percussion to give it their signature flair. The result is the catchy rendition you've heard so often: urban, with an echo of the islands. The rest of the CD cleverly vamps on this formula, with the Men at their best when they stay true to Caribbean textures...
...right. The original version was a soca (soulful calypso), a horn-heavy, uptempo form that is played at Caribbean carnivals across the U.S. every summer but has never really caught on. When Baha Men finally recorded "Dogs," they explored beats more familiar to American audiences - throwing in some junkanoo (Bahamian festival music) percussion to give it their signature flair. The result is the catchy rendition you've heard so often: urban, with an echo of the islands. The rest of the CD cleverly vamps on this formula, with the Men at their best when they stay true to Caribbean textures...
...helped bring about the end of the Cold War, served as the youngest provost in Stanford's history and is now the top foreign policy advisor for Governor George W. Bush. She has a Bahamian-flagged supertanker named after her, sits on the board of investment giant Charles Schwab and knows more about sports than most...
...demise of David Kazdin, 63, a longtime acquaintance and business associate of Sante Kimes' who was found shot to death in a Dumpster near Los Angeles International airport in March. Police suspect the Kimeses may have fraudulently obtained a $260,000 loan on property listed in his name. And Bahamian police have unanswered questions about the death of banker Syed Bilal Ahmed, who vanished in Nassau in September 1996. Sante Kimes reportedly had dealings with Ahmed shortly before he disappeared...