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...years since the caramel theory was first advanced, the gooey glycosylation residue has been given an appropriate acronym: AGES, for advanced glycosylation end products. If residue from AGES do indeed gum up the body's works, however, there may now be a way to get things unstuck. Investigators at the Picower Institute for Medical Research in New York are working on a drug that acts as an AGES solvent. Known as pimagedine, the medication dissolves the connections between the AGES protein and the proteins that cluster around it. In one study, 18 patients taking pimagedine showed reduced blood levels...
Workers stationed at "T" stops in Harvard, Porter and Central Squares and at the Cambridge hospital handed out "survival kits" filled with chewing gum, raisins and information on how to quit permanently for smokers who wanted to quit for the day, according to Patricia M. Anderson of the Tobacco Control Program...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Over the last 10 years there has been an explosion of government interference in our lives. It is now illegal to roof a building and chew gum at the same time...
...Sounds farfetched, but advanced PERIODONTAL DISEASE may increase an expectant mother's risk of giving birth prematurely. The gum disease is an infection. In fighting it off, the body produces chemicals that may set off contractions...
...evening now, everyone's home, Sam's cold is better, the lights are coming on up and down the street. Lori's house is sheathed in olive-green steel siding; there's a Japanese maple squatting like a sumo wrestler out front, and a sweet gum tree, and a big red oak in the back shading the gas grill and the lawn chairs. The house is a home--a sweet, messy testament to the compromises of parenthood; the curtains are lace, the couches paisley, the walls papered in cream with pink roses and wreaths of dried flowers, all soft edges...