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...with a diet and exercise program. That seems rather naive, considering the history of fen/phen. In the four years since the older treatment has been on the market, clinics have sprung up all over the U.S., especially in the Los Angeles area, to distribute Redux to eager customers. One chain alone, California Weight Loss Medical Associates, has 19 centers and a catchy toll-free number (1-888-4FEN-FEN) that it advertises in the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Daily News and on Howard Stern's syndicated radio show. Some places offer discounts for customers...
...MART Albumed out: chain bans new Sheryl Crow release for lyrics implying it sells guns to kids...
Fleming's further experimentation with penicillin--a few poorly planned attempts to treat patients--proved frustrating, and he turned his attention to other research. But in 1938 Oxford pathologist Howard Florey and his young assistant Ernst Chain took up the work again, using the progeny of Fleming's own molds. In a relatively short time, they demonstrated penicillin's efficacy in treating human infection, a feat that had eluded their predecessor. In 1945, Fleming, Florey and Chain were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine...
That's understandable. The deal will create a chain of 1,100 outlets in 47 states and 10 foreign countries. Fuente and Staples CEO Thomas Stemberg denied that a merger would lessen price pressure on the thousands of items, from pushpins to personal computers, on which the two often clashed. But analysts viewed the deal positively for exactly that reason. The combined companies would control about 10% of the $150 billion U.S. office-supply business, or about three times the slice held by No. 3 OfficeMax...
Finally, there is Mt. Harvard, Colorado's third highest mountain, at 14,420 feet. The mountain, part of the Sawatch Range, is part of a chain called the Collegiate Peaks, which include Mts. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Oxford, about 90 miles southwest of Denver...