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...into Farias' soft drinks when she was not looking, either as a joke or out of more prurient motives. GHB overdoses are a growing problem: more than 100 suspected cases have been reported over the past several months in Texas, Florida and California. Most teenagers seem to take "Liquid X," as it is sometimes called, to get high. But GHB is also known on the street as "Easy Lay," and authorities fear it may be taking the place of Rohypnol, the tranquilizer that made headlines last year as the "date-rape drug...
...treatment can save PREMATURE BABIES born with underdeveloped lungs. Doctors fill the tiny, collapsed air sacs with an oxygen-rich liquid that enables the lungs to expand. The liquid eventually evaporates...
...both lungs had begun to fill with fluid. In the past, doctors had no way of removing that fluid, and the patient would die of pneumonia. "They clear the lungs through repeated suctioning," says Reeve. "They stick a tube right down into your lungs and pull out the liquid. You can't feel down to your lungs, but you can feel the tube go down your throat...
...triumphed in spite of his epithets: hatchet man, Nixon's water boy, tax collector for the welfare state, the Senator from Archer Daniels Midland, the Old Man. And, finally, how he believes he will wrench the presidency away from an opponent whose relative youth and ease and liquid empathy conspire to make Dole look old and stiff and all alone...
...dash any notion you had of cooking over a fire, or snacking on trail mix. Liquid-fuel stoves with electronic ignitions have made matches passe; contraptions like the Camp Kitchen from Coleman, the Kansas-based gear purveyor, allow any hiker to play Martha Stewart. The portable kitchen weighs only 35 lbs. and yet contains 6 ft. of counter space, a sink, stove space, storage shelves, a paper-towel rack, a set of backgammon and a set of checkers. It all fits in a suitcase-size carrier. At $199 the movable diner is one of the company's best sellers...