Word: blum
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...squeamish about the substance as well as its source. Mila is supplied by Russian maternity wards, but Shiseido is very secretive about the placental extract in its popular Revitalizing Cream; the Japanese company won't even say what kind of animal it comes from. Progressive Beauty Brands executive David Blum admits his Placenta Plus products sell best overseas and in Hispanic communities, "where there's less resistance to the word placenta...
...Brokers forgot the rules," says lawyer Darren Blum, who won a $98,000 award last year after arguing that a broker failed to make suitable recommendations based on his client's assets and investment experience. The client, a 73-year-old bookkeeper in Hollywood, Fla., agreed to put nearly $200,000--or roughly 80% of his liquid net worth--into a stock he'd never heard of, Sigma Design. "I was buying like crazy on margin," says the bamboozled bookkeeper. "And I got wiped...
...remember choosing to live in the Quad freshman year because I knew there would be more women there; we wouldn’t be so spread out,” Joanna Blum Jerison ’76 says...
...Vidal's intimate knowledge of politics and politicians informs the cast, as well as the script. Mark Blum, who plays Russell's campaign manager, recounts an anecdote about mudslinging Gore told: "At one point Jackie Kennedy said to Gore, 'I know we have this whole big list of stuff on Nixon and I don't know why we just don't use it.' And Gore said 'Well, Jackie, you better be pretty damn glad we don't, because if we use ours, they use theirs...
Because chemotherapy and radiation don't have much effect on advanced melanoma, researchers are experimenting with various drugs and vaccine-like therapies to try to rev up the body's defenses against the tumors. There has been enough success with interferon, says Dr. Ronald Blum, director of the Beth Israel Cancer Center in New York City, to make the immune-boosting drug be considered a standard of care. And, he adds, "for those who can withstand the short but very toxic inpatient treatment program, interleukin-2 can lead to significant reductions in tumor size." In most advanced cases, however...