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...other hand, phenylephrine sprays are usually safe for folks with high blood pressure, since the medication stays pretty much in the nose and doesn't affect the rest of the body. Pseudoephedrine, by contrast, should not be used, except under a doctor's order, if you have hypertension. Also, in extremely rare cases, the drug may trigger a heart attack...
...Brownsberger said, “I support our troops, and think they should come home.” He said the state needs the guard here to protect local gas reserves and to help in the event of a natural disaster. On abortion, Firenze opposes it in all cases, except for rape and incest. She stressed prevention of unwanted pregnancies through sex education and the morning-after pill. Brownsberger agreed with Firenze on the need to prevent unwanted pregnancies, but asserted that women should have a right to choose. Firenze, a political neophyte, stumbled at times and seemed glued...
...online gambling website Bodog.com gives Etchemendy four-to-one odds for the job, better than every candidate except two Harvard insiders, Law School Dean Elena Kagan, at three to one, and University Provost Steven E. Hyman, at seven...
...vocal hooks strung along the moonscape that it is still recognizable as pop, albeit a kind bound not to get much play on radios stateside. It’s a record so weird and original that there’s no context for which it would be wholly appropriate, except maybe Halloween. The vocals are so heavily processed throughout that the singers never sound human—this is the sort of music ghosts might make, if they were Nordic and liked to dance as they haunted. That may not sound like a compliment, but believe...
...names that included Zoroastrians gods and goddesses, commanders of ancient Persian armies, and other such tainted, best-forgotten figures. You were free to call your eight children (the government was also promoting massive procreation to fuel the Islamic Revolution) by Ali, Hossein, Zahra, and the like. Indeed, Arabic names, except for a handful of Sunni villains, were fine. Persian ones, despite originating from the language actually spoken in Iran, had to be checked against the official list. Along the way, other politically inconvenient realities were fought on the baby name terrain. Wishing to quell an uprising by ethnically Kurdish Iranians...