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What is jammed up nostrils, supposedly provides a jolt, and isn't cocaine? Presenting Ener-B, an intranasal gel loaded with vitamin B12 and sold in health stores for $12 a twelve-dose box. Like '60s celebrities who swore by B12 shots, enthusiasts claim the new nose job supplies a burst of energy. Absurd, say experts, and the FDA is investigating. Most people have a five- year B12 supply stored in their livers; excess simply gets excreted. "If you buy this gel," sniffs Dr. Victor Herbert of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, "you're going to have the most...
...been a pupil of Cellist Emanuel Feuermann in Germany. Saito was aware his students lacked cultural grounding. "He said that if you know the music and have no tradition, then you must go to Europe," remembers Ozawa. "If you have talent, you should have a very good nose to smell which is good tradition and which...
...Angeles and a world away from Hollywood, the 80-year-old director sits in a chair, watching the action on a closed-circuit television monitor and rumbling orders into a microphone. The jauntiness of his warm-up suit is belied by the clear plastic tube that runs from his nose, behind his ears, down his chest and along his leg to an oxygen tank, a last-ditch defense against the emphysema that has plagued him for decades...
Even in a football-crazy state, where a beefy nose guard can develop as big a following as any politician, Clements' confession proved startling. After a meeting of 17 S.M.U. governors, the new chairman reported that none had admitted knowing of any agreement merely to "phase out" the cash instead of cutting it off. The board voted that any member who had such knowledge must resign...
There is more to running the flagship of democracy than just knowing how to style one's hair, of course. Other grooming habits are equally important. A presidential candidate may not wipe his nose with his hand, for example, especially on television. Richard Nixon did not wipe his nose with his hand during his famous Checkers speech. He immediately gained widespread support...