Word: kalamazoo
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...Angeles' Comedy Store, have for years served as a proving ground for young comics, helping launch the careers of Robin Williams, Joe Piscopo, David Letterman and dozens more. Now clubs with names like the Punch Line, Laff Stop and Funny Bone are spreading the yuks everywhere from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Ozark, Ala. At least 260 full-time comedy clubs -- ranging from posh nighteries like New York's Caroline's to converted Chinese restaurants -- are currently in operation, according to Barry Weintraub, publisher of a magazine called Comedy U.S.A.; two-thirds of them were launched within the past five years...
...attention has the Kalamazoo, Mich., pharmaceutical giant chortling happily. But before the product, which the company has named Regaine Topical Solution, can go on the market, it must clear a formidable hurdle: the Food and Drug Administration...
With benefit so slight, the FDA needs to be convinced that the risks are minimal. But the federal agency appears to be almost alone in moving cautiously. Upjohn has already spent nearly $26 million retooling its plant in Kalamazoo. Regaine will not come cheap; a year's treatment with the prescription-only lotion may run around $1,000. But no one doubts there will be plenty of takers. Some resourceful men are creating a moonshine tonic on their own. The key ingredient: mashed hypertension pills, containing--what else?--minoxidil...
...since life isn't a Life cereal commercial, I have no chance for real redemption, to be filmed on Main Street Kalamazoo dancing and singing a musical invitation to come patronize the Kalamazoo commercial district...
...hold my praise of Kalamazoo. I'm sure they'll thank me for it later...