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Kupel’s Bake and Bagel is a bagelry cum bakery, with both areas having the same amount of emphasis. To the far left corner sit the myriad of cream cheese tubs, lox, vegetable, walnut and many other flavors. Crates filled with bagels stand behind the counter. The glass display case contains colorful pastries galore; stacks of giant M&M cookies sit besides trays of apple strudel and chocolate danishes. And, yes, there are hamantaschen. Almost two shelves are devoted to the treat, with flavors including prune, cherry, strawberry, raspberry, apricot and more ($0.65 for small). The hamantaschen shell...
Gwaltney's favorite combo is a curious mix of high-and low-tech treatments: a quick squirt into the nose of the biotech drug interferon, followed by two over-the-counter pills--an anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen (such as Advil or Motrin) and a so-called first-generation antihistamine like chlorpheniramine (such as Chlor-Trimeton). The interferon primes the immune system to unleash its antiviral defenses while the ibuprofen and the chlorpheniramine keep the inflammatory processes under control...
...doctor's prescription for it. When you consider that Americans suffer about 1 billion colds a year, the resulting demand could overwhelm the health-care system--which is why most cold experts believe that any cure will have to be safe enough to be sold over the counter...
...show] has had more influence on America than any other program in terms of portraying the proper image of African Americans,” S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, said in presenting Rashad the award. “She has worked very hard to bring social issues to the screen...
...encouraging students to go counter to the reason they’re here,” he said, adding that the megaphone counts as a capital expenditure and therefore should not fall under the heading of “walkout” funding...