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What politics he had were the product of his native Niagara Falls, New York, a largely blue collar town known less as a conservative hotbed than as a vacation site and source of gift shop kitsch. Through his father, an ardent Democrat who works in the state's department of labor, Granieri absorbed a suspicion of Republican politics. "When Ronald Reagan was elected president," says the younger Granieri, "I was under the impression it would be the end of the world. My father hated...
Granieri points to his Democratic roots to rebut accusations that his conservatism is merely the product of upbringing. "I never liked it when I said I'm conservative and people said my parents are conservative," he says. "I used to bristle at that. Nobody asks liberal students about their parents...
...product has already proved valuable in several clinical trials of new drugs. Neurologists using MEMS bottles in a Yale University study of a teatment for epilepsy found that two-thirds of the seizures suffered by the patients occurred at times when they had not taken the proper dosage of the medicine. Dr. John Urquhart, a co-founder of Aprex, thinks MEMS bottles can "save lives and minimize unnecessary hospitalization and diagnostic tests...
Bloomingdale's takes pride in introducing chic fashions to trend-hungry New Yorkers, so it seemed perfectly appropriate that the department store was the first in town to sell the latest product of perestroika: imported Soviet rye bread, hot off the flight from Moscow. Bloomingdale's last week was selling the two-pound loaves (price: $6) at the rate of 30 an hour...
...best defense in the presence of her new lover, but she is irrepressibly outspoken when she sets pen to paper. "Look, I'm really something, me," she tells herself. "And also I am nothing," she continues, in a characteristic about-face. "I am the debris of the world, product of a series of unconsidered and unnatural matings, between the proud, the mad and the murderous...