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...advice doesn't apply to individuals over 65 or those with diabetes or chronic heart and lung disease.) Patients shouldn't think they're getting poor treatment if their doctors don't prescribe antibiotics. Stick to over-the-counter products to ease symptoms. And be patient, patient! The bug will eventually go away...
...home in the Stockholm suburbs. His father was a policeman, his mother a teacher. His older brother introduced him to music. "He brought home old Kiss cassettes," Martin says, and with glam-rock blasting from the tape deck and Gene Simmons staring from the bedroom wall, the rock star bug bit hard. Martin soon started music lessons. He's still not sure why he picked French horn, hardly an obvious choice for an aspiring rocker "I guess it looked cool," he says. Far cooler was the school's music room, where he taught himself to play the drums...
...morning paper. The news is about him: a bloody turf war over the Mafia-run garbage-trucking business. The garbage war, we discover, is the new target of the long-running FBI investigation against him, and the Feds spend the taut first episode trying to plant a bug in Tony's basement - the one place in his house where he talks business - to the sound of the "Peter Gunn" theme mixed with the Police's "Every Breath You Take" (no TV series uses its soundtrack more wryly and effectively...
What distinguishes the latest crop of robots from their strictly mechanical forebears is their ability to react to their environment (rather than dumbly obey the whims of their five-year-old masters). For example, Hasbro's B.I.O. Bugs send out radio and infrared signals to sense who or what is in the room. If it's a predator, the bug might decide to fight, gaining strength with each match it wins. Touch its antenna, and it will scurry away to flock with other bugs. "You can train them, but you can't tame them," says creator Richard Yanofsky, who claims...
Naturally, the 750NAV was far from bug free. Sometimes it couldn't communicate with its global-positioning satellites; other times it did so imperfectly, locating us with pinpoint accuracy miles out at sea. I liken the experience to traveling with a really knowledgeable but hopelessly drunk guide...