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...first time his name was mentioned, Thompson's potential nomination raised a few eyebrows. But enthusiasm for his reputation as a bureaucracy-buster and welfare reformer soon overshadowed most concerns. Enormously popular among many moderates, Thompson is the nation's longest-sitting governor with a reputation for no-nonsense leadership...
Scientists have long known that venom from the southern copperhead, native to the Eastern U.S. and Mexico, contains a powerful clot buster. In the mid-1990s, a team led by biochemist Francis Markland, of the University of Southern California, discovered that the venom may also fight cancer...
...Heart A powerful new clot-busting drug, tenecteplase, reduced treatment time for heart-attack victims from 90 minutes to just five seconds. Clinical trials showed the drug to be as effective as the standard clot buster t-PA and easier to use since it can be administered in one quick injection instead of an hour-and-a-half infusion. Tenecteplase, which was approved by the FDA last June, is also longer acting and specifically targets blood clots, rather than indiscriminately thinning the blood. Good news for the more than 1.1 million Americans each year who suffer a heart attack...
...shadow of the gold-domed State House, Jose Morales and Gustavo Restrepo were eating late lunches at a Greek diner, The Fill-A-Buster, yesterday afternoon. They are regulars here and yesterday. Morales was eating a plate of beef kebobs. Restrepo was eating chicken kebobs...
Earlier this month, a biography of the New York City mayor broke some news so startling and ironic that it even had Hillary clucking in sympathy. Rudy!, by investigative reporter Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice, reveals that the famous crime buster hails from a family of crooks. Rudy's deceased father Harold was convicted of burglary at 15 and armed robbery at 26; he went on to be a baseball-bat-wielding debt collector for Rudy's uncle Leo D'Avanzo, a "petty mafioso" loan shark. For Giuliani, who may not have known about his father's imprisonment...