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CHICAGO: As anyone wrestling with nicotine addiction knows, that first day can seem an eternity. Now, researchers studying the effectiveness of the nicotine patch are placing odds on whether your first tobacco-free 24 hours will really last forever. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center studied 200 smokers who buttressed their "quit day" by starting on a nicotine patch program. Those who broke down and cheated that first day were "10 times more likely to be smoking" in the long run, said one of the researchers, Dr. Eric Westman of Durham, N.C. "This...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: For parents whose kids can't seem to do without their ravenous Cabbage Patch dolls, the Consumer Product Safety Commission offers this advice: pull off the toy's backpack. Removing the pack will deactivate the lever that operates the doll's teeth. Although it has not issued a recall, the commission says it will continue to investigate some three dozen complaints that the dolls have chewed on little girls? hair and fingers, mistaking children for the fake carrots and french fries they were designed to chomp. No serious injuries have been reported -- yet. Most surprising are mothers like...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: For parents whose kids can't seem to do without their ravenous Cabbage Patch dolls, the Consumer Product Safety Commission offers this advice: pull off the toy's backpack. Removing the pack will deactivate the lever that operates the doll's teeth. Although it has not issued a recall, the commission says it will continue to investigate some three dozen complaints that the dolls have chewed on little girls? hair and fingers, mistaking children for the fake carrots and french fries they were designed to chomp. No serious injuries have been reported -- yet. Most surprising are mothers like...
There's Rep.-Elect Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa), who represents a patch-work of industrial towns, farms and university towns, along the Mississippi River...
...result: that rare and glorious middle-class Cabbage Patch-doll frenzy, marked by toy scalping, queuing at dawn, rumors of retailers hoarding product and celebrities besieging Nintendo's Redmond, Washington, phone lines. Among those pleading for special dispensation: Matthew Perry, Steven Spielberg's office and, according to Harrison, "several Chicago Bulls who asked to remain anonymous." Look for Harrison courtside real soon...