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...COMBO CAMERA Do you love the convenience of digital cameras but miss that unforgettable instant-photo smell? Now you can have the best of both worlds with the C-211 Zoom, a new digital camera developed jointly by Olympus and Polaroid. It features a built-right-in printer that churns out copies of your digital snapshots on the spot, just like a conventional Polaroid. Its 2.1-megapixel images and 8MB memory card aren't too shabby, either. At $799 the C-211 is definitely a "prosumer" item, but it hints at better (and cheaper) things to come...
...advantage of the two-drug combo is that it can terminate an unwanted pregnancy earlier than most surgical procedures. And because surgery is not required, the risk of infection is lower. Yet there are drawbacks. Some women suffer excessive bleeding, nausea or diarrhea. Nor is it recommended for women with bleeding disorders or who smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day. Indeed, for many, surgery is less complicated--and quicker than the three-office-visit protocol required for the new pills...
...CHEMO COMBO More than 55,000 Americans will die from colorectal cancer this year. But doctors have designed a new chemotherapy regimen that can slow metastatic colorectal cancer and buy patients a few more months of life. By adding the drug irinotecan to the standard treatment of fluorouracil and leucovorin, researchers increased patients' survival time from 13 to 15 months, afforded them seven months (up from four) of progression-free disease and nearly doubled the percentage of patients whose tumors shrank...
Athletes use the drug for the same reasons they use steroids, and the combo of hGH (bigger muscles) and testosterone (stronger muscles) is especially appealing. The drug form of hGH sneers at those who would seek it out: after injection, it has a half-life of only 17 to 45 minutes, so it flushes from the system in short order while its effects linger. Although it is a banned substance, it will not be tested for in Sydney...
Gridlock, in fact, is one candidate investors should vote for. The Dow has fared best when one party has controlled the White House and the other has controlled Congress, the optimum formula being a Democratic President and a Republican-controlled Congress. That combo has produced Dow gains, excluding dividends, of 10.7% a year. The hands-down loser: Republicans with a mandate. When the g.o.p. has run both branches, the Dow has limped at less than 1% a year...