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...selling point is the bright, basic colors. Hilfiger never approved of Armani's dark palette that has dominated high fashion for the past 15 years. For his inaugural collection he has bright plaids, smart tops and sweaters, plus a few special numbers like a pretty, light quilted coat. At Bloomingdale's the young shoppers loved it. Erika Cohill, a student at Nassau Community College, got straight to the point: she likes her white turtleneck "because it's got the Hilfiger flag...
...White-coat hypertension--when BLOOD PRESSURE readings spike under the stress of a doctor's visit--may not be as innocent as once thought. Research now suggests that it may lead to cardiovascular abnormalities similar to those caused by persistently elevated readings...
Politicians sensed TV's special emotional potency very early: in 1952 Richard Nixon saved his vice-presidential campaign against charges of financial wrongdoing by declaring that his wife wore "a respectable Republican cloth coat" and defiantly vowing to let his kids keep "a little cocker spaniel dog" named Checkers. Now political operatives watch the declining ratings for the traditional convention format and conclude, rationally enough, that the public's taste has changed, that it wants to "feel" the data rather than think about them. And, in the spirit of those Hollywood bigwigs they so roundly condemn, they are more than...
...thank God.' And now I'm on the other side of the door. And I have to stay in the room and be the one with the problem. And I still have to admit to tremendous jealousy of people doing normal, everyday actions. You know, just putting on a coat and walking down a hallway and opening a door and going outside. Rummaging around in the kitchen cabinet for forks and knives. Using the clicker to change channels on the TV. Taking the steps two at a time. All those things you'd think, you know, after a while...
...result is gaping holes in the spinal cord. Long nerve fibers, or axons, that originate in the brain and weave down the spinal cord, eventually connecting with other nerves that branch to muscles as distant as the toes, are torn and stripped of their protective fatty coat of myelin. The myelin sheath is like the rubber coating on electrical wire. Without it, the nerves cannot function...