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...shots really are worth the fuss and bother. A three-year study of people ages 45 and older who live in the Canadian province of Manitoba found that without the vaccine, the number of hospital admissions for influenza and pneumonia would have been 40% higher...
Benjamin J. Heller '94 is pleased to see that the fuss over television violence has lasted long enough for him to write another piece about...
...real-time Yellow Pages, laser-print coupon clubs, interactive soap operas and all the rest. The only people who weren't plugged in were those pointy heads who never owned a TV set in the first place. I saw one of them the other day, walking outside, making a fuss over the flowers. Hey, I'm no lowbrow. I used to go to the movies...
...addition to free product samples, the exhibition also offered free concerts featuring Inclined, Eve's Plum, Tribe and Get Set V.O.P. Also featured were lesser-known bands like Greta, who happily signed autographs after their performance. The bands set up with a minimum of fuss and an informality which set the tone for the night. The casual atmosphere made it extremely easy to talk to the bands. Also, the fact that one of the members of Greta had performed in a dress didn't hurt either...
...China and today's San Francisco. Four immigrant ladies, who meet for mah-jongg and call themselves the Joy Luck Club, have four American- born girls, now in their 30s. While the daughters follow the quiet ambition fed them at birth -- to be unostentatiously extraordinary -- the mothers fret and fuss. You're not a good enough pianist; you're too proud about your gift for playing chess. "I'd rather get rectal cancer" than have you marry that Caucasian. And look at the top bedroom in this pricey home he built for you: "A million dollars, and the walls...