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...cheap, as well as safe and effective against all of them, is a daunting task. (Today's cold remedies treat only the symptoms and not the cause.) Then I started wondering if the folks at Gel Tech, the company that developed Zicam, knew what they were doing. Just four days after Gel Tech announced that its study of Zicam had been accepted for publication by the American Journal of Infection Control, the journal editor asked the company to withdraw it. Like an overeager novelist, Gel Tech had given away too much of the ending before the story appeared in print...
What Zicam, which sells for $9 to $12 a bottle, has going for it is a simple idea for preventing cold viruses from attacking the nasal passages. Four years ago, a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggested that hapless snifflers could cut a cold's duration almost in half by sucking on foul-tasting zinc lozenges. That's because zinc ions are about the same size and shape as the molecular doorway through which one major group of cold viruses, called the rhinoviruses (rhino for "nose"), breaks into the nasal cells. Coat those viruses with zinc, and they...
ASSASSINATED. WEZI KAUNDA, 47, rising Zambian opposition leader and son of former President Kenneth Kaunda; by four gunmen; as he and his wife--who was unharmed--were on their way home; in Lusaka...
Fountain Hill Borough, Pa.: Sherwood Kerschner ran for and won two jobs: a four-year and a two-year stint on the same council. He has to choose...
...special chemistry. Domenica Alioto, 18, chose Trinity College Dublin because "none of the American schools I applied to really excited me the way Trinity did." The excitement is apparently catching: the number of all American students in Ireland, where there are only nine universities, has doubled in the past four years--to 1,160. Some may come to walk the same streets as did Joyce, Yeats, Swift or Wilde, or take in the enchanting architecture and countryside. Ivan Filbi, director of international student affairs at Trinity College Dublin, simply credits the quality of the schooling. Americans come there, he says...