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...names, sure to attract teenagers everywhere, don't stop at Gayheart or Gellar. The loveable Eric Stoltz, last seen skulking through Jerry Maguire's bachelor party while holding up a large, dripping bottle of Jack Daniels, will also flash his ingratiating smile across screen...
Unfortunately, there is little hard, scientific evidence to support the use of most hot-flash remedies sold in health-food stores. The exceptions are the soy supplements. Soy isoflavones have been subjected to quite a bit of scientific testing, with mixed results. While some studies show as much as a 45% reduction in hot flashes, others have found that a placebo can be nearly as effective. Also, whereas the moderate amounts of soy isoflavones contained in food are safe, there are hints that the high concentrations found in supplements may promote breast tumors...
...different condition. It's a drug called gabapentin, okayed in 1993 to treat seizures but commonly used for relief from migraines and chronic pain. In a study of five women taking gabapentin, neurologist Thomas Guttuso Jr. of the University of Rochester reported an 87% reduction in hot-flash frequency. But Guttuso admits his study is too small to be more than just an interesting first step. Besides, gabapentin can have unpleasant side effects; patients taking it have complained of feeling sedated...
Komikado's loyalty to her co-workers is admirable, but the group mentality often discourages the risk taking needed to support experimental products. In the mid-1980s, Fujio Masuoka, a senior manager at Toshiba, created flash memory, a powerful chip that enables laptops to function without cumbersome disc drives. "American chipmakers are going to have to copy our design or risk losing the market," crowed Masuoka. Instead, Toshiba balked at mass production. Eventually, Intel swooped in and within a few years held 85% of the multibillion-dollar market...
...blue-golden - such a sweet, frictionless light that from a hilltop I see the Catskills across the Hudson, miles to the west. In a wetland by the road, a great blue heron prospects for frogs, standing poised in the early evening clarity, utterly still... then strikes with a lightning flash of beak. At my approach, the heron rouses itself in a cumbersome fluster, and rises in the air and flaps off in prehistoric, slow-motion grace, topping the red pines...