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...very serious and very disturbing." Although preliminary reports have linked the arrested man, Ahmed Ressam, less with Osama Bin Laden than with Canada-based Algerian Islamic radicals whose primary target has been France, "what you may have here," says Dowell, "is some cooperation between different groups or even one group subcontracting another...
POINTING A FINGER It's only one case, but fascinating nonetheless. A dentist who knew she was allergic to protective latex gloves noticed that the same foods she ate safely at home set off a severe allergic reaction when she ate them at a restaurant. Could it be the gloves food handlers wear? To test the hypothesis, researchers fed her orange juice stirred with a finger sheathed in latex as well as untampered juice. Sure enough, minutes after drinking the stirred juice, her chest tightened and wheezing began. Researchers suspect she's not alone...
After you've experienced one bout of atrial fibrillation, however, you're likely to have another. In some cases, that could spell trouble. The uncoordinated beating of the heart allows small amounts of blood to pool in the atria, where the blood can form clots that can travel through the brain, causing a stroke. The risk is greatest for folks 65 and older, who are often given blood thinners like aspirin and the prescription drug warfarin to lessen the risk. But Bradley is 56. And in a Dec. 9 letter to the candidate, his doctor reported that the occasional irregular...
...your first experience with the Net is less than satisfactory, don't take it out on your monitor. It might not be your PC's fault. Check the weather - the weather in cyberspace, that is. Like the earth's atmosphere, the Internet is a vast, complex system, one that has its own patterns and disturbances, and those disturbances can affect your own access...
Even in this gilded era of unsurpassed profit for biotech and pharmaceutical conglomerates, one company always struck analysts as something of a black sheep. The Monsanto Company, whose subsidiary Searle makes the wildly successful arthritis drug Celebrex, has been casting around for a merger partner for over a year, and now, executives say, the search is over. Monsanto will merge with Pharmacia & Upjohn, joining the ranks of other mega-merger firms like Astra-Zeneca and Rhone-Poulenc-Hoechst, to form a corporation worth about $52 billion. Why did it take so long for Monsanto to find its mate...