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Next I tried Callwave, a "free" service that--big surprise--isn't. Like all the other software-only services, it requires you to sign up for a little-known option provided by most local phone companies called call forward on busy. This means that if your phone is busy, an incoming call is automatically forwarded to another number--for $1 to $3 a month, plus a one-time activation fee. (In Manhattan it's $16 plus $1.60 a month--hardly free.) With Callwave, callers are forwarded to an 800 number that plays a canned greeting telling people you're online...
Visudyne works only on wet macular degeneration, and produces the best results in patients whose retinal abnormalities occur mostly in what is known as the classic pattern. Doctors inject the drug into a vein in the patient's arm; from there it quickly spreads through the body. The drug concentrates wherever new blood vessels are being formed. But it doesn't start destroying those blood vessels until it is activated by pulses of light from a non-heat-generating laser. Since the light is shone into the eye, only the abnormal growths in the retina are targeted. Patients have...
...glad that someone finally made it known that you need not be vegan to change your eating habits and positively affect the environment. The amount of meat Americans consume is unhealthy. Maybe in the future we will substitute beans, nuts, vegetables and grains for meat. It will be a fine day when you have bean burgers at the family cookout. SARAH GENTILE Amherst, Mass...
Lance Morrow in his piece on handshakes, "Pressing the Germy Flesh" [ESSAY, Nov. 8], refers to Donald Trump's well-known aversion to shaking hands. I wonder, Did the Donald learn his obsession with having clean hands from Howard Hughes? Two of a kind! DAVID E. RUSSELL Jacksonville...
...year's bonfire, but many on campus, the injured and eyewitnesses among them, want it reinstated next fall. "Yes, it hurt a lot of people," says Fernando. "But it should be carried on in the spirit of tradition." Twenty-four hours after the collapse, students honored another campus ritual known as Silver Taps. A bugle summons students to remember classmates who have recently died. That was a tradition no one disputed...