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...SUFFER IN SILENCE Surveys have shown that many patients don't tell doctors or nurses about their pain for fear of being labeled cranky or difficult or because they assume that their discomfort will go away. And yet, says June Dahl, professor of pharmacology at the University of Wisconsin, that reluctance can backfire. Left uncontrolled, the pain you thought was temporary can trigger a long-term chronic condition. It can also interfere with the healing process and lengthen your recovery time...
...that's not all. One day, autonomous "nanobots" far smaller than motes of dust will patrol the body, repairing aging organs and fixing genetic damage before it can turn into disease. But nanomedicine is still in its infancy, cautions Carol Dahl, co-director of the NCI/NASA collaboration. "Most of the work we're seeing out there right now asks, What are the widgets we can build? Next, the question will be, How can we apply them to solve specific problems?" Mihail Roco, adviser to the National Science Foundation's $150 million nanotechnology initiative, believes we will have an answer soon...
...letting them do some of the cooking, say experts. If you didn't give one for the holidays, children's cookbooks still abound in stores. Popular titles include Kids' First Cookbook (from the American Cancer Society), Cooking with Kids for Dummies, Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes and Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes. Mix in some adult supervision, and have...
Readers rave about the books' imaginative touches, which have been compared to C.S. Lewis and Roald Dahl. Rowling took real life situations--like going away to school--and painted a world of magic around them...
Like Lewis and Dahl, the books have a distinctly British flavor to them. Rowling gets away with plot devices that would have a hard time making it by an American publisher, according to The Coop's Ringen...