Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same zinc lozenges (zinc gluconate glycine) that in adults reduce the duration and severity of a cold do nothing for kids. Youngsters don't take to zinc either: most complain about the taste; some develop diarrhea. Scientists can't explain why zinc doesn't work for kids-or why it does for adults...
...Rancid weren't perfectly aware of what they were getting into by releasing the modern rock smashes "Salvation," "Time Bomb" and "Ruby Soho." Playing into the system isn't a respectable gesture in theunderground punk scene where the band was born:"Backslide" is the retrospective self-analysis inRancidspeak to explain the misgivings away...
...more paranoid than the rest of us, which may be why Barney's department store in New York City is selling a $595 coat, left, equipped with a pocket lined with a copper-polyamide-polyurethane shield that protects the owner from harmful cellular-phone emissions. It may also explain why clients of Meurice Dry Cleaners (also in New York) can FedEx their clothes from anywhere in the world so Meurice can clean and FedEx them right back. Cost to send and clean a suede jacket? About $150. (The service has clients as far away as Rome.) But what excuse...
...tension between him and his new boss. "I'm looking forward to being part of the team," he says. But just so everyone understands what that means, Albright met with him for an hour last week to outline what she expects from her new ambassador and explain how she conducted herself when she held the job: carefully...
...tension between him and his new boss. "I'm looking forward to being part of the team," he says. But just so everyone understands what that means, Albright met with him for an hour last week to outline what she expects from her new ambassador and explain how she conducted herself when she held the job: carefully...