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...sniffles? You may want to put down that Kleenex. A study released Friday at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy in San Francisco says that nose blowing may prolong and even worsen a cold. Researchers at the University of Virginia had healthy volunteers blow their noses and measured the pressure inside the subjects? sinus cavities. They found that nose blowing creates an enormous amount of internal pressure - a force that can drive mucus streaming with bacteria and viruses back into the sinuses, possibly making a cold worse...
...Even though it didn't count, I think that goal psyched us up," Kalil said. "We came back strong in the second half and we just tried to prolong our crescendo for as long as we could...
...tempted to slip away without saying goodbye. Don't. "If the parent sneaks out, a child never knows what to expect and will cling even more," says Amy Flynn, director of New York's Bank Street Family Center. Once you've said goodbye, leave. "Don't prolong it," says Ucci. "That's just excruciating...
Extension: How to prolong writer'sblock...
Expected in some quarters to drag on through the weekend, the deal was reached before desperation set in on NATO?s side. "Moscow had been quite content to prolong the standoff," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. After all, by seizing Pristina's airport and spoiling NATO?s victory parade, Russia restored some of the sense of geopolitical power that had faded since the end of the Cold War. But apparently realizing that the standoff could last only so long -- Russia after all remains in economic free-fall and can't afford to step on the West?s goodwill indfinitely...