Word: coxing
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...also not clear exactly how aspirin works to ward off polyps. There is evidence to suggest that it slows down the enzyme known as cyclo-oxygenase 2, or COX-2, which seems to play a role in spurring cell growth that can lead to tumors. But for reasons no one can yet explain, higher doses of aspirin didn't translate into more protection. In one of the studies reported last week, more patients in the group taking full-strength, 325-mg aspirin pills developed colon cancer (10.7%) than in the group taking so-called baby, or 81-mg, aspirin...
...your doctor decide that you should start taking low-dose aspirin therapy, be sure you use the right pills. Although there is reason to suspect that other anti-inflammatory drugs, such as Advil and Motrin or the newer COX-2 inhibitors Vioxx and Celebrex, might offer similar protection, only aspirin has been rigorously tested. Tylenol (acetaminophen) is not an anti-inflammatory, so don't expect it to protect you against colon or any other cancer...
...world is harder to control. Out there, over the Iraqi border, are enemies who will want to kill these Americans if war comes. And now protesters at home are demanding that the troops return from here without firing a shot. "We're confused," says Marine Private First Class Patrick Cox, 21, an LAV driver from Broken Bow, Neb. "Are the protesters going to spit on us when we go home...
...always relished making. A laid-back, soft-spoken Southerner who first became interested in documentaries when ordering them for his professors at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Hendricks "is a schoolteacher at heart," says John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, a principal shareholder of Discovery, along with Cox Communications and Advance/Newhouse Communications. "Like Ted Turner," Malone says, "Hendricks has a childlike enthusiasm about new ideas that is infectious." (His latest passions include the Women's United Soccer Association, a league he co-founded, and the small plane he pilots above his ranch in western Colorado...
...addition to his own advocacy for affirmative action, Bok said that it was Harvard that convinced the University of California to allow Harvard Professor Emeritus Archibald Cox to argue the Bakke case in front of the court...