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...sniffles? You may want to put down that Kleenex. A study released Friday at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco says that nose blowing may prolong and even worsen a cold. Researchers at the University of Virginia had healthy volunteers blow their noses and measured the pressure inside the subjects? sinus cavities. They found that nose blowing creates an enormous amount of internal pressure - a force that can drive mucus streaming with bacteria and viruses back into the sinuses, possibly making a cold worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Cyrano Shouldn't Have Used a Kleenex | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...hope and sometimes try, we drop people from our lives. Something about the way our daily dealings are composed lets them fall away, and allows that to happen without excessive worry or even notice. It could be that the way to know people is to go through them like Kleenex, and to allow yourself to be gone through as well. And saying that is only offensive...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, | Title: Forget Me Not, For The Time Being | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...always encourage this with the dining hall staff and students eating in the cafeterias...Students should also make sure that they do not share food or drinks with sick roommates and that dirty Kleenex should be disposed of immediately," he said...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Health Services Warns of Flu | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

...Kleenex 1924, first disposable tissue developed by Kimberly-Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Hundred Great Things | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...very young 18, the sensitive son of a bull-witted rancher. The kid learns fast: "He felt that her life was but the smallest flame that might be snuffed out if he were to let go of her," the author advises. The advice here is, Buy Kleenex stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Loop: Nicholas Evans | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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