Word: clevelandism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just Vioxx but Celebrex and Bextra as well, and by FDA advisory panels that recommended stronger warnings for the whole class of pain relievers known as COX-2 inhibitors. "The cardiovascular problems appear to be a class effect," says Dr. Eric Topol, director of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. "But the magnitude of risk does seem to differ from drug to drug." It's now up to the FDA to decide whether the dangers, which in some drugs start to appear only at high doses, warrant its strongest, black-box warning, which would halt direct-to- consumer advertising...
...beautiful late morning last May when Richard Hawley, headmaster at University School in Cleveland, Ohio, saw the flock of mothers entering the building, eager and beaming. "I ask what brings them to our halls," he recalls. "They tell me that this is the last day the seniors will be eating lunch together at school and they have come to watch. To watch their boys eat lunch? I ask. Yes, they tell me emphatically. At that moment, a group of lounging seniors spot their mothers coming their way. One of them approaches his mother, his hands forming an approximation...
Some businesses have had an easier time making the call. In Ohio, Cleveland's Dover Lake Waterpark had a Tsunami pool, which didn't seem quite so inviting after the tragedy. Shortly after the disaster, it was rechristened Whitecap. --By Jeremy Caplan
...Cleveland is also begging James to stick by the Cavs; his bargain rookie contract ($18.8 million for four years) ends in 2007. Dan Gilbert, founder of online lender Quicken Loans, is forking over $375 million to buy the Cavs from longtime owner Gordon Gund. Gilbert says he'll do whatever it takes to keep James. Although James says, "I don't want to go anywhere else to play," it will probably take Kobe money, somewhere north of $130 million for a seven-year deal, to make him stay. The city is starving for a winner--Cleveland has gone 41 years...
Three decades or so after his injury, Howie lives in his boyhood home in a Midwestern town that could be Cleveland, Ohio. With both his parents dead, he has a makeshift family of housemates that includes Nit and Nat, affable slacker lunkheads, and Laurel Cao, a level-headed, sexy Vietnamese American from Texas who makes gourmet soups for sale to local shops. He also has a steady, undemanding job doing maintenance and yard work for a local convent. What he does not have is any particular hope for the future...