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...evaluate such remedies, Jacobs will rely on both standard trials and an increasingly popular research technique: analyzing the outcome of differing therapies in matched groups of patients. Such a study, he explains, might compare the effects of bee pollen with conventional antihistamines in treating allergies. Since alternative healers are new to scientific studies, the office will take steps to monitor the validity of records and results. At a minimum, Jacobs hopes to provide a service to consumers. At best, he says, "we may help promote a revolution in thinking among practitioners and researchers. It's a bold new venture, sort...
...four decades, the mainframe was the queen bee of office computing. The gigantic machines often served as host for an army of white-collar workers, who were linked together in a single network of as many as 10,000 "dumb" ( desktop terminals. The market for these behemoths regularly grew 15% a year, but sales have slowed to 4% since 1990 as customers have turned to less expensive but powerful personal computers and linked workstations. Many manufacturers of large systems have already fallen victim to this irreversible change. In August, Wang Laboratories was forced to file for bankruptcy. Unisys...
This collection as a whole shows The Smiths at their most deliberately Anglicized. It is not only the Merseyside accent (which is perceptibly stronger when Morrissey declares lightly: "I'd like to drop my trousers to the Queen,") or the Wodehouse-like phrases ("you're the bee's knees"), but also the sly double meanings which continually poke fun at British culture. "Two lumps, please," Morrissey declares soulfully, in "Reel Around the Fountain," referring to a cup of tea and a sexual partner at the same time...
Having Newbury Comics as a neighbor has helped as well, Wali says. Many avid comic book readers, who are usually also sci-fi fans, make a bee-line straight to Man from Atlantis, Spider-Mans and Batmans in hand...
...Buckley Jr., Robert De Niro, a stewardess, a bashful sheep, Pinocchio, a magician, a Jean Gabin-style Frenchman, Sebastian the crab from The Little Mermaid, Arsenio Hall, a finicky tailor, Walter Brennan, a TV parade host and hostess, Ethel Merman, Rodney Dangerfield, Jack Nicholson, a talking lampshade, a bee, a U- boat, a one-man band and a quartet of cheerleaders. Many of these apparitions show up in the Cab Callowayish A Friend like Me, a showstopper in which the Genie displays his awesome versatility...