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...writers Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, adapting an old Michael Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find in movies of this kind...
When Ted C., a heroin junkie and former baseball umpire, heard about an experimental new treatment for his addiction, he was skeptical. Doctors told him that a simple pill called buprenorphine could eradicate his enormous craving for the narcotic, which he had been snorting daily for several years. It sounded too good to be true--junkies live in fear of the agony that arrives when a hit wears off--so Ted bought an extra bag of heroin the night before he took buprenorphine for the first time. Just in case...
...this time there was no pain. "I went to the clinic, took the pill and went home. I used the last of the bag and haven't touched heroin since," he says. That was April, and today he still takes the tablets--one a day keeps the craving away--but he expects to stop using the drug in a few months. "There was no struggle," he says. "There is no downside to the drug...
Hair's the Pill You've Been Waiting For Get set for folicle frolics as the FDA puts the seal of approval on a new baldness cure. What's the down side...
Unlike the pill-popping, shake-slurping diet crazes of the 1980s, the Zone has a digestible but unorthodox premise: staying trim depends mainly on eating meals in which 40% of the calories come from carbohydrates, 30% from protein and 30% from fat. Or, put another way: eat the butter; hold the bread...