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...assistant in charge of federal procurement policy. Jane Austen would keenly appreciate the spirited comedy of manners that is being played out inside the Democratic Party: like spinsters preening before the village bachelor, Democrats are jockeying for position in a future Dukakis Administration. Some call this genteel process Potomac Fever. Others view it as the Waltz of the Wise Men Wanna...
Republicans are hardly immune from Potomac Fever, but after eight years in power and multiple turnovers in the top jobs, most have already had a chance to serve. For Democrats, who have held the White House only four of the past 20 years, the yearning is unmistakable. "Like others, I am getting a continuous supply of letters, telegrams, calls, reports and recommendations," says Harvard Professor Robert Reich, who is often cited as a key economic adviser to Dukakis. He adds with a roguish twinkle, "I hear from a remarkably large and varied number of people...
...about the wear and tear of daily intimacy, especially when his characters are drunk. And his stories are zingers. The titles set the mood of emotional frazzle: they are often either provoking shards of dialogue (Put Yourself in My Shoes, They're Not Your Husband) or freighted single words (Fever, Fat, Careful). Most of these tales are culled from four previous books, with seven new entries. Of the latter, Elephant is a grimly funny catalog of woe from the soft touch in a remorseless family that lives on loans. None of the new material, however, has quite the impact...
...fever and other allergy sufferers will testify, the immune system can sometimes react to pollen, animal dander, molds and drugs that are normally harmless. In allergy victims, however, the immune system goes into high gear at the appearance of these substances, or allergens. It begins producing antibodies called immunoglobulin E, which attach themselves to mast cells located in the tissues of the skin, in the linings of the respiratory and intestinal tracts, and around the blood vessels. The mast cells promptly begin to release a number of chemical signals, including histamine, a substance that dilates blood vessels and makes...
...usually reserved for patients with advanced cancer. Amy Hance, 25, of Bloomington, Ill., reached that stage early this year. Melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, had spread to her liver, spleen, stomach and lungs. The determined Hance opted for experimental IL-2 therapy, even though side effects -- including fever, massive fluid retention, anemia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and heart and lung problems -- had killed several patients...