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Laura has a doll on which she practices all the medical procedures which she must undergo. She has had a lot of practice explaining her condition. When she described how her disease had come back, this time in the form of an earache, she sounded far more knowledgeable than most adults...
...British trial were less conclusive. In a six-year study of 5,139 physicians, half took 500 mg of aspirin every day. Oxford University researchers found no reduction in heart attacks. They did see, however, a small but troubling excess of strokes. "Some things are clear," says Sir Richard Doll, who led the investigation. "For anybody who has had a heart attack in the past, it is beneficial to take a small dose of aspirin daily. That's unanimous. The dispute is over what healthy people should...
...Scrooge and end up as Santa. They must pretend to a cleansing meanness of spirit they cannot honorably sustain. In movie terms, they wear the mask of the Me-First '80s only to reveal the crinkly face of '30s romantic farce. Two of them boast the most ingratiating doll faces in today's Hollywood: the cartoon countenance of Goldie Hawn, in Overboard, and the Garbage Pail Kid visage of Danny DeVito, in Throw Momma from the Train...
...visit to Washington, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev extolled his reforms, known as perestroika, or restructuring. Leave it to a pair of American capitalists to take his words to heart. San Francisco Businessman John Lee Hudson and his wife Shana, who lost $30,000 trying to market an Ollie North doll after the Iran-contra hearings, plan to convert their leftover inventory into the likeness of the Soviet leader...
...foot-tall doll will retail for $19.95, Hudson says, but the make-over cannot be finished in time for Christmas. In the South Korean factory where the unsold Ollies languish, workers will refit the doll with a new Gorbachev head, complete with the famous wine-stain birthmark on the scalp. The Marine uniform will be replaced by a stylish Italian suit. The clothes will be be padded to mimic the Soviet leader's bulky physique. From the neck down, the plastic Gorbachev is actually a knockoff of Ken, the Barbie doll's popular boyfriend...