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Robinson's wife and four children released a statement calling him "a loving and caring husband and father," adding that they "did not know the person whom we have read and heard about on TV." At the QT filling station down the road from Robinson's farm, where he regularly stopped for gas and soda, the manager put it a little differently: "I guess there are a lot of people who don't know a lot about...
Remember, dear readers, you heard it here first, off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush...
Babies at risk for sudden-infant-death syndrome may be reliably identified by a signal on an EKG. Newborns with the heart abnormality, called a prolonged QT Interval, were 41 times as likely to be at risk for sids as those without it. If detected, the problem can be treated with an 80% to 90% success rate...
Unfortunately, there are plenty of reasons. To start with, the substances are available only in tiny quantities at this point. When scientists first started making endostatin, it took 200 qt. of mouse urine to obtain less than a millionth of an ounce. Turning the compounds out in people-size doses will require entirely different manufacturing techniques. EntreMed claims it now has a way to make lots of endostatin, using yeast cells as tiny factories; angiostatin is proving a lot tougher to mass-produce...
That might be one possible explanation for the explosion in sales of such wilderness products as L.L. Bean's portable "vacation home," a tent that sleeps five and includes a screen porch ($499); or the Coleman Company's "Event Center," a 40 1/2-in. collapsible bar with a 37-qt. storage compartment roomy enough for a case of Chardonnay ($29.99); or for the Starbucks-deprived, G.S.I. Outdoors' Mini-Expresso maker, which weighs in at a featherlight...