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...from the world. The story is one of a boyhood friendship fractured by competition over a beautiful woman (ahhh...beautiful women). Reunited years later, the two men find themselves clinging to one another for survival even as try to destroy each other. All of the characters must wade through pain, suffering and isolation to find something that could pass for happiness...
...many of us suffering occasional aches and pains, reaching for the Tylenol has become almost a reflex. The best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever and its generic copycats are staples in American medicine cabinets. The active ingredient in Tylenol is acetaminophen, a versatile molecule that can cool a fever, soothe a teething baby and dull the sharp joint pains of osteoarthritis...
Most people seem to assume that there's no such thing as overdosing on an over-the-counter pill; if one dose doesn't take the sting from their pain, they simply pop another. But you can't gobble acetaminophen tablets like so many M&Ms. The drug produces toxic byproducts that are funneled to the liver--which ends up working overtime to clear them out of the body. If you ingest too much acetaminophen, toxins can build up in the bloodstream and do serious damage...
...type of pain reliever isn't working, you can try a different one--say, aspirin or ibuprofen--but you should know that each of them has its own problems (including upset stomach and ulcers). Whatever you take, make sure you read the instructions...
...social uncertainty. And in their rage, they're increasingly willing to take to the streets, or sign up with what Beijing sees as dangerous millennarian cults. Accessing the World Trade Organization and integrating itself more completely into the international economy demands that Beijing accelerate rather than ease the pain of economic liberalization - a prospect that horrifies its more security-oriented hard-liners. To have come even this far down the capitalist road, Jiang's party has abandoned much of its communist ideology, but not its often brutally authoritarian monopoly on power. That leaves sharp differences over the country's future...