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...they had the flu, and one woman noted the sickness was as bad as what she experienced while undergoing radiation and chemotherapy for cancer. Caffeine withdrawal may explain the puzzling distress some people suffer following surgery (pre-op procedure often prohibits food or liquids), or on weekends (no office coffeepot), or during visits with people who prefer decaffeinated beverages. The findings, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine by a Johns Hopkins University team, may apply equally to moderate drinkers of tea or caffeinated sodas. Those wanting to give up caffeine are advised to reduce their consumption gradually over...
Sweet dreams, antic dreams, strange dreams: a man strolls onstage with a small marionette in the shape of a coffeepot, then runs off and reappears as a huge percolator walking a tiny man-shaped marionette. A pixilated sleight-of- hand artist puts a bunny in a box (ho-hum), pulls out an air pump (hmmm), attaches same to box and pumps mightily (what?), and finally produces not the expected exploding hare but a live jumbo rabbit who appears to be only slightly smaller than a Shetland. All right, all right -- it's still only a big bunny, but it seems...
Congress created Costello's post in 1986 following disclosures of huge cost overruns by defense contractors and allegations that companies had, among many other offenses, billed the Pentagon for their executives' country-club fees and charged as much as $7,500 for a coffeepot used in aircraft. The principal remedy, lawmakers thought, would be to centralize all procurement authority in the hands of a single individual. Until then, such power had been spread among a myriad of departments. Said Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, a Colorado Democrat: "We envisioned a czar who would kick trash cans and have rats jump...
...these pages, TIME presents exclusive photographs of the salvage operation, the Titanic itself and some of the recovered treasures. Among the objects brought up by French divers: a bronze teapot and coffeepot, a leather valise, a rococo vase, a statue of a cherub from the Titanic's first-class grand staircase and a ship's safe, which may contain a fortune in jewelry...
...their front yard, snow melts off six other refrigerators, piles of tires, three Maytag washing machines, a dozen bicycles, several bed frames and various orderly piles of useful treasures, all harvested from the dump. Their toaster, broiler, blender, coffeepot, clock, heaters and just about every other electrical item in the house are also from the dump, repaired by Ron, along with down jackets, chairs, front ends for cars, wood, French windows and jars for canning...