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...actually cough in someone's face [and spread mono]," Rosenthal says...
...longer making big money, and the coin trade was ailing. Creditors called, and McNall scrambled for money. His associates began playing shell games with his various "companies," faking coin sales, borrowing from one bank loan to pay on another. The Merrill Lynch funds crumbled, obliging the company to cough up perhaps as much as $30 million in compensation to 3,500 investors and leading the fbi to investigate the disappearance of $3.3 million in coins from one of the funds. Having learned from the horse's mouth, so to speak, that McNall had a certain familiarity with the smuggling trade...
...University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas discovered that the cells employ a kind of molecular switchboard to sort out incoming chemical and hormonal messages. The switches in this biological telephone system, molecules called G proteins, have since been implicated in everything from diabetes to alcoholism to whooping cough...
...Although the majority of infants in the U.S. regularly see a doctor, research indicates that more than half the nation's babies fail to get all the vaccine shots they need during the first seven months of life. Many have no protection against spinal meningitis and whooping cough...
...Despite evidence that over-the-counter remedies such as cough and cold medicines are often ineffective and sometimes produce adverse reactions when taken by preschool children, worried parents continue to resort to these cures. Interviews with the mothers of three-year-old children revealed that parents use such preparations 70% of the time when faced with illness...