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BENEFITS: Relieves stuffy nose and opens airways. RISKS: Nervousness, restlessness and difficulty sleeping, particularly if combined with caffeine. Should not be taken by anyone with high blood pressure, glaucoma or kidney disease. Call your doctor immediately if you experience fast or irregular heartbeat, tremors or hallucinations...
...Fast-forward to November, when Fumihito showed imperial blood isn't much thicker than water when he announced at his 39th birthday press conference that his big brother's remarks in May had taken both himself and the Emperor by surprise. Fumihito deemed it "unfortunate" that his brother and father didn't have a heart-to-heart beforehand, and went on to add that he considered official duties "passive by nature...
...into a wasteland, yet nearly a third of the 3.5 million people displaced by the war are expected to return there this year. The deal doesn't address the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, which some have called genocide. "Unless Congress sees movement on Darfur, and fast, they're not going to be in the mood to appropriate a lot of money for the rest of Sudan," says U.S. Ambassador William Bellamy. "I'd go ahead and drink a glass or two of champagne, but with the understanding that you have to get up in the morning...
...Gladwell sometimes plays fast and loose with his evidence, he's easy to forgive because going fast is so darn fun. It's hard to say what Gladwell is trying to prove with a section on professional food tasters, for instance, but, hey, did you know that food scientists have a 15-point scale for measuring crispiness, on which Quaker's Chewy Chocolate Chunk Granola Bars are a 2 and Kellogg's Corn Flakes a 14? What Gladwell is saying in Blink is often less compelling than the facts he uses to back himself up. Who doesn't know that...
...pesky issue of Pinochet’s health: after a judge placed him under house arrest in January 2001, the Santiago Appeals Court ruled that Pinochet was indeed medically unfit to stand trial and so forced prosecutors to abandon the case against him. Until yesterday, that medical defense held fast. Though his defense counsel has pledged to appeal yesterday’s indictment to Chile’s highest court, it seems now that the slippery General may at last be at the end of his luck...