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...studies, researchers went back over case records and picked out patients who appeared to have the illness. In other studies, researchers interviewed patients and made diagnoses in person. But virtually all the studies pointed to the same conclusion: general physicians aren't very good at recognizing the most common mental illness in the world...
...told reporters on Wednesday. "It's important that they get the seasonal-flu shot. But the H1N1 outbreaks have so far spared that population. So I would tell them that their risk of illness from this virus is very low compared to that of younger people." (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...will take it on the chin - as the teachers' unions did when Bush passed the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandated a testing regimen the teachers didn't like. But the passage of landmark legislation like the health-industry reforms that Obama is seeking has become about as common as politicians who refuse to run television ads. It just doesn't seem to happen anymore...
...made quite clear, the prevailing trend among sun-loving women these days is to use both pieces of their bikini. Le Monokini, C'est Fini! , shouted Le Parisien in its report from a Mediterranean beach. "Nude Breasts Are Less Trendy" concurred free daily Metro France. "The practice has become common, and therefore less compelling as a fashion," says sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann. "When the local baker takes off her top despite her 60-year age and sagging breasts, the gesture loses its social distinction as one of youthful beauty." Some note that the return to more modest costumes...
Creating a public for such esoteric wines isn't easy, especially when abandoned varietals, often unrecognized by labeling authorities, risk being classed as common vin de table. So Plageoles and company are fortunate to have impassioned advocates in wine merchants like Christophe Guitard, founder of Ochato.com, who impress on oenophiles how rare a privilege it is to taste a Savoie wine like Domaine Belluard's Les Alpes. It's made up entirely of Gringet, of which only 50 acres (22 hectares) exist. "If you are epicurean and curious, you want to taste this mysterious, extremely rare varietal, which moreover creates...