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...medical officials explain the sharp rise in the incidence of asthma at the same time as the precipitous decrease in smoking and exposure to tobacco smoke...
...more than in acting, it's tough to remain in the vanguard. Consider the four overlapping phases of Elvis' music. Phase 1: At Sun Records, he borrowed blues from blacks and country songs from rednecks, passing them along to the huge middle-class. Phase 2: He got sharp material from top young songwriters (primarily Leiber-Stoller and Otis Blackwell) that he could make his own. But early rock didn't allow for much variety: 12-bar blues, 16-bar pop song. Phase 3 began in late 1957, when every songwriter was handing him drab variants on Blackwell...
...explosives in the EDS machines); putting shoes on top so that they can be removed and searched easily; spreading books out and not stacking them on top of one another (stacked books are too dense for the EDS to "see" through and might trigger an alert); and putting all sharp items in a checked bag, not a carry...
...centers. The resulting Arab outraged sabotaged the efforts of Vice President Cheney, then on a tour of the region to win Arab support for invading Iraq, and prompted the administration to send Secretary of State Powell to the region on a peace mission whose half-hearted nature reflected the sharp divisions in the administration over how far to back Sharon. This time, of course, concern for U.S. objectives may restrain the Israeli prime minister - at least until the Stars and Stripes flutter in the Baghdad breeze...
...have no suitors jumped in yet? That's the paradox across the drug industry: pharmaceutical companies are among the most profitable legal businesses in the world, and employ some 520,000 people in Europe. And yet the sector has been behaving lately as if it were in a sharp downturn. The battle for control of Bayer is just the latest in a series of corporate partnerships, mergers and hostile takeovers that have shaken up the drug industry in recent years. Why such an urge to merge? One reason is that developing drugs has become both harder and more expensive than...