Word: fels
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...similar system has been in place at Fel-Pro, a gasketmaker in Skokie, Illinois. "It makes a big difference," says Pamela Pope, who is married and has three children. "It gives me time during the week for car repairs, personal things." Fel-Pro also subsidizes tutoring for children having trouble at school and helps with college counseling. Says Elliott Lehman, Fel-Pro's chairman emeritus: "What we do increases our profitability." Yet the conferees note that there are few hard data on the link between family support and productivity. "Until we measure the effects of the ideas,'' says Rayman...
...HUPPAN," the Harvard University Fel lows Program Administrators' Network is currently used by those who run 50 Harvard programs for visiting fellows to exchange information...
Pamela L. Metz, head teaching fel- low for the course, say the larger sectionshave been difficult...
Members of some 2 million U.S. families are allergic to cats. Feline saliva contains the offending substance, a protein called Fel d1 (for Felis domesticus 1) that is left on the fur and skin during preening, a full-time preoccupation of most cats. As a result, houses full of cat hair and dander cause uncomfortable reactions in 25% of allergy sufferers. "Some 70% of cat owners allow their cats to sleep with them in their beds," says Dr. Joseph Wedner, chief of allergy and clinical immunology at Washington University. "There's no better way to make someone allergic...
...control -- although in each case the victory may not be worth the trouble. In the midst of experiments with cat dander, allergist Wedner made a serendipitous discovery. "If you wash cats once a month," he says, "then over a period of three to eight months they will stop making Fel d1. In essence, you've created a nonallergenic cat." To nail down his findings, Wedner now has his cat-owning patients experimenting with the technique on their pets...