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...psychoanalysis; you can pick up practical strategies from various quit-smoking telephone hotlines (for a list of numbers as well as tips, visit smokefree.gov) As for nicotine products, make sure you're using them the right way. You need to chew the gum slowly, for example, not swallowing the saliva until the nicotine can be absorbed through the cheek, says Dr. Elliot Wineburg, who has used everything from drugs to hypnosis at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City to help hard-core smokers quit. Many people try to make do with as little nicotine as possible, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Stub Out That Butt! | 1/19/2004 | See Source »

...Kerry--who even when riding a Harley seems to be the world's least plausible man of the people--is offering the second most aggressive populist pitch among the Democrats--in some ways, a pitch more clever than Dean's. Kerry isn't angry so much as disdainful; the saliva is carefully rationed. He mocks the President's more unfortunate moments, like "Bring 'em on." He does his best work with "Mission accomplished." "The Bush Administration will be measured by those words," he told a crowd in Portsmouth, N.H. "But whose missions have been accomplished?" He proceeded to list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: The Fire This Time | 1/12/2004 | See Source »

10/15/03—Exiting Au Bon Pain while consuming the remainder of my lunch, I was greeted by an anonymous male. Though I did in fact say hello to him through a mouthful of half-chewed foccacia bread, the hello was perhaps nullified by the large, saliva-sodden chunks of bread matter that landed on his coat and face...

Author: By Peter L. Hopkins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Say Hi to Pete," He Who Hath Sinned | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

...SALIVA IS INJECTED The mosquito injects an anticoagulant mixed with saliva through the hypopharynx. This keeps blood flowing easily. It also causes an itchy bump to rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bzzzz...Slap! | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

TRANSMISSION Birds are prime reservoirs of West Nile virus and prime targets of mosquitoes. When a mosquito bites an infected bird like a crow, the virus collects in the insect's saliva and can infect the next target it strikes. The disease may take 3 to 14 days to incubate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bzzzz...Slap! | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

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