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...students is that it's as serious as ever-and perhaps getting worse as formulas for mixing drugs at home become more common on the Internet. Hospital admission data tend to bear this out, and so does a new study by Ilene Anderson and her colleagues, showing a 15-fold increase in calls to emergency hotlines in California involving teen abuse of over-the-counter cough medicines between 1999 and 2004. "Pharming" parties also appear to on the increase... What's more, it's indisputable that the use of prescription drugs by young people-which may be replacing the "self...
Firefighters may have their own medical emergencies to worry about when the alarm sounds, according to a Harvard study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study showed an up to 100-fold increase in the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) events—such as heart attacks—for firefighters while engaged in emergency activities, a finding that focuses attention on the prevalence and efficacy of preventative health measures for emergency responders. According to data collected in the study, CHD events are the leading cause of death of firefighters on the job, accounting...
...Burgin has written extensively on semiotics and art theory, and the richness of his thought is reflected in “The Little House.” He describes his audience as two-fold: those who visit the installation, and “the audience inscribed in the work, with an interest in and knowledge of the Baroque, modern architecture, and textuality...
...Only in a country that eight years ago was considered a failed state could that be called progress. But kidnappings are down ten-fold in the past four years, and the annual murder rate has dropped from 28,000 to 17,000. Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos claims that heroin production has been eliminated in the country, once the world's third largest producer, and that coca eradication programs have drastically cut production. The economy is growing at 7%, inflation is low and exports are up. Uribe's popularity has soared to 73% as a result. "The major success...
...festooned with large Pop-art poppies. "We thought it would be good?but it was great," says Sprenger, who joined the company in 1985 and became senior vice president of hardlines five years ago. She was instrumental in welcoming interior designers Thomas O'Brien and Victoria Hagan to the fold. O'Brien's lighting designs have resonated most brightly with customers, and you don't need to be Thomas Edison to work out why. A handsome desk lamp at Aero, O'Brien's high-end SoHo store, runs upwards of $1,000. The Target version, almost as spiffy...