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...beleaguered tobacco companies) launched in the last two years, it?s possible that when the 2000 numbers are released in 2002 the CDC will have reason to be pleased. And maybe by 2002 the agency will have figured out they need an inexplicable two years of lag time to scratch out their numbers...
...booed John Rocker this summer. No, scratch that. Let me be more specific. I booed, jeered, taunted, harangued and even hissed (for a bit) at John Rocker this summer. And let me tell you it was great...
Alexandra E. McNitt, a Harvard University Dining Services project manager who oversaw the process, said the renovations completely gutted the old serveries and started from scratch...
...Smith dishes--remembering, for instance, a farcical night dropping acid with actress Holland Taylor. But she does it, generally, with obsequious reverence and block-that-metaphor prose (Joan Crawford was "her own nebula--a woman who hauled herself up by her bootstraps and created her glittering star self from scratch"). That soft touch has made her the Barbara Walters of gossip, with access to match. "[W]ouldn't you rather I dealt with it Liz Smith-style?" she asks subjects. After a few hundred pages, it becomes a little much--and that's before Smith shares her thoughts on religion...
...SCRATCH AND SNIFF Don't hold your breath, but you may someday be able to take a smell test for Alzheimer's. Patients with mild memory problems were asked to scratch and sniff odor-infused patches and then identify the scent. During a two-year follow-up, none of those who could accurately distinguish peanut from pizza, for example, went on to develop Alzheimer's. But nearly half who scored poorly--and, interestingly, didn't realize they had an impaired sense of smell--did develop the disease. Apparently the olfactory pathway, and probably the area in the brain responsible...