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...Hugh spent ever more time on the third floor of the White House, accumulating so much stuff that when the Clintons vacated the residence in January, he had nearly as many boxes to move as Chelsea. (He probably would have had more, but he also spent weekends at a Coral Gables, Fla., home he shares with his wife Maria Arias, a Cuban-American real estate lawyer...
...came time to order that V-Day staple, roses, I tried two extremes. The elegant Justflowers.com looked promising, but the $70 hand-delivered roses I settled on were only just O.K. "They look a little dry," a friend pointed out. Although they were twice as big as the coral-colored roses I received from Freshroses.com I preferred the latter. After all, it's easier to forgive a $40 bouquet for its imperfections--tiny buds already in full bloom--than...
...Thailand cobra, which can grow to more than 6 ft., is armed with venom that paralyzes nerves and muscles and eventually causes respiratory arrest. For the past 10 years, PhyloMed Corp., of Plantation, Fla., and the Bahamian firm Coral Pharmaceuticals have been conducting clinical trials of Immunokine, a drug derived from Thailand cobra venom, on people with multiple sclerosis. Virtually nontoxic, Immunokine seems to prevent immune cells from attacking and destroying the myelin sheath that protects nerve cells...
...kill a fungus without harming its host? Researchers are pursuing a variety of novel approaches. One Florida-based outfit, the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, is searching for antifungal compounds in a coral-encrusted black sponge found in the Indian Ocean. Merck is expected to get FDA approval this year for a novel class of antifungals derived from Spanish soil...
...time runs out for his presidency, Clinton is desperate to leave an environmental legacy that will not be swept away like last year's leaves. Just last week he decreed the preservation of 84 million acres of coral reefs in Hawaii, his EPA ordered the long-delayed dredging of chemical waste from the Hudson River, and he started a new effort to salvage the Kyoto treaty to fight global warming after negotiations broke down in the Hague last month. With a flurry of pronouncements this year, he has locked away from loggers and developers more public land in the lower...