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...help common drugs work more efficiently. Elan Drug Delivery, located in King of Prussia, Pa., pulverizes existing drugs to a size that maximizes the body's ability to absorb them. Naproxen sodium, a pain medication found in products such as Aleve, can take as long as two hours to exert its pain-relieving effect. Nano Systems has developed a crystal version of naproxen, still in clinical development, that works in 15 to 20 minutes. "Using NanoCrystals has not made naproxen a better drug"--just seven to eight times as fast as the commercial product, says Larry Sternson, president of drug...
...never heard a word of Nash in my college courses on New Criticism, So I will now exert all my analytic powers to convert his witticism to Holy Writicism. His forte was the metrical line so unbalanced as to be bonkers, For while other poets, even after they had renounced rhyming as old-hat, would still compose verse in a familiar meter, Nash would keep a line going longer than a Bishop Sheen speech or a Jerry Colonna note, while winding toward some tortured rhyme and keeping readers guessing whether he'd finish up in Yonkers, or call certain people...
...People aren’t happy with everything going on,” Dowling said of the increasing influence of early decision programs. “We’ve all been feeling we’d like to see Harvard exert leadership, and we have a president willing to provide leadership...
WILD KINGDOM The Jebel Akhdar, or Green Mountains, exert a mythical appeal both over locals and tourists. Every Omani will tell you how beautiful the mountains are, though few have actually made the day trip. Locals warn that it's risky to try to get to the fabled mountain villages, where terraced gardens bloom. They mention an unyielding police check-post, treacherous roads and hint at other, mysterious dangers. But my companions and I were not discouraged, not least because Arabs have a charming knack for hyperbole...
Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71 called the complete absence the 12 black and Latino ethnic student organizations “unfortunate” and pledged to exert more control over the yearbook submission process to prevent groups from being overlooked...