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During the talk show that comes on after Letterman. I can't be more specific. It's all a haze. Last week my infant daughter had the croup, causing me to stay up working on my laptop with only late-night TV for company. I vaguely recall that Christina Aguilera appeared in a skimpy tank top during one program, but as I said, I can't recall the specific hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thanks for Asking | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...most part, the pitfalls of administering Harvard's exams are on a smaller scale plumbing mishaps, scheduling woes and an occasional missing key. According to Whitty, the problems her office has to handle during exam period strangely croup up on Saturdays and or days when Exam Group XI finals are given She is hard pressed to account for this dual phenomenon Group XI is traditionaly the smallest set of exams and may full administrators into a false sense of security, she theorizes. As for weekend exams, Whitty will only say. "If it's Saturday, you always know something terrible...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: You Think Exams Are a Problem? | 5/12/1982 | See Source »

Ministers' wives, too, live in a fishbowl. We constantly share our husbands, have to deal with croup, measles, hysterectomies and heartaches, but perhaps our lives are even more exacting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Oct. 28, 1974 | 10/28/1974 | See Source »

Shortly after noon, Lyndon invited a few reporters into his 17th-floor hospital room. Propped up against the pillows and inhaling deeply from a "croup kettle" that spewed steam, he reassured everyone that he was just fine. Said he: "I wouldn't hesitate right now to put on my britches and go back to the office if there was something that needed to be done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: After The Ball | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Parainfluenza 2 is one of the common causes of croup in children. Whether it can reinfect them or attack adults is not yet known. Parainfluenza 3 behaves much like type 1. But all these viruses are so new to science that medical researchers still do not know such important details as the differences in their incubation periods after they infect a victim. New York City's concurrent outbreaks of flu and paraflu may provide some useful clues. Pediatricians have noted that parents tend to come down with a moderately severe illness about six days after a child gets sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: Flu & Paraflu | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

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