Word: lomotil
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...especially for wanderers smitten by places they ought to think twice about: where quaint cultures run up against armored jeeps charging through city streets, where emergency travel kits had best include not just a bottle of Lomotil but also a bulletproof vest. The surprise is not that such dangers exist but that so many of the countries where they are commonplace want you to spend your vacation there. In the relentless quest for the tourist dollar, even places like Kashmir (400 civilians killed last month) and North Korea (no casualties, but why go?) are advertising their supposed charms...
...fear of having to make a second trip. Consequently, their bookbags are very heavy, insuring a daily upper-body work out. Just a few of the items a Quadling must carry on his voyage downwind: books, pens, passport, travelers checks, sleeping bag, English-Riverese/Riverese-English dictionary, 110v/220v electrical converter, Lomotil and distilled water...
...should produce dramatic savings for consumers−potentially $1 billion over the next twelve years, according to the FDA. Generic drugs already on the market usually cost much less than their brand-name counterparts. At one Dallas pharmacy last week, customers had to pay $8.79 for 20 tablets of Lomotil, an antidiarrhea pill made by G.D. Searle. But the same amount of medication was available under its generic name, diphenoxylate, for only $3.29. In one New York City drugstore, a medicine for high blood pressure made by Ciba-Geigy called Apresoline cost $15 per 100 tablets; its generic equivalent, hydralazine...
Like traveler's checks and Lomotil, guidebooks are a necessary nuisance. All too often the information they contain is inadequate, ill written and, worst of all, irrationally organized. Yet how else to find out which museum has the Raphaels and where they serve good veal? In a radical approach to the genre, a two-year-old Los Angeles publishing company named AccessPress Ltd. has, under the guidance of its founder, Architect-Cartographer Richard Saul Wurman, 49, reinvented the wheel with a series of compact volumes that open up cities through striking graphics, terse copy and a tight format...
...well-prepared winter visitor brings long Johns and sweaters. In summer he comes with short-sleeved wash-and-dry shirts. There are no neckties in China. The climate in summer is a sauna bath; almost everything worth seeing requires climbing. A must in any season is Lomotil or another anti-diarrhetic, and throat lozenges, to combat the dust and coal smoke in the air. The F.F. must be prepared in advance for the virtual or entire absence of: air conditioning, ice water, ice cubes, ice cream, poached eggs, hamburgers, French fries, lamb chops, orange juice, cocktails, nightclubs, good grape wine...