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...Downey prepped for three weeks for his one-hour screen test for Iron Man. "You run [the scene] until your subconscious can cough it up with ease," Downey says. "Then you run it to where, if you were woken up in the middle of the night, you could probably say it backwards. Then you write the whole thing out illegibly and see if you can scream through it as fast as you can, while only having a rough reference of what it is because it's written out like chicken scratch." Oh, and then if you're Downey, you probably...
Thousands of years ago, doctors used alcohol in prescriptions for everything from chronic cough to anxiety. But modern medicine discovered that alcohol is responsible for at least 12 different major ailments, from gastrointestinal bleeding to brain damage. Besides, 30% of long-term users also become alcohol dependent. Edward H. Jeon, M.D., WEST HILLS, CALIF...
...says he'll continue to do so. But Shanghai is already gridlocked and smoggy and getting worse by the day. That's part of the reason my wife and I, with a 3-year-old daughter in tow, moved here - our daughter had developed a persistent hacking cough that she couldn't seem to shake. By 2010, in and around Shanghai there will be some 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of new highways that didn't exist in 2000. And millions of new cars will be traversing them. Shanghai may make Los Angeles on a bad day look...
National adult immunization rates reflect that "kids only" mentality, with rates being lowest for the newer vaccines. According to the survey, just 2% of adults have had the new combo shot for tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (better known as whooping cough), even though pertussis rates in adolescents and adults have soared in the last 20 years. The disease, a major child killer before the childhood vaccine was introduced, can cause coughing so forceful it breaks a patient's ribs or leaves him vomiting...
...affected by what happened in their most important export market [the U.S.] was always rubbish," says Stein, so long as domestic consumption can't make up for any shortfall. And neither is Asia resistant to fallout from the subprime snafu either. Analysts speculated Monday that Chinese banks could soon cough up to huge losses linked to exposure to the U.S. mortgage market. The Bank of China, for one, with almost $8 billion in subprime-related assets, is expected to shortly announce losses...