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...this week's National Hardware Show in Chicago is a breakthrough in...night-light technology? Yep, the Elumina Dimmable, available this fall for $5.99, is the most sophisticated device of its kind ever made. Its features include 10 brightness settings, an extra-long life-span and a special sheath that extends to cover the night-light's plug when it is removed from its outlet--to reduce the risk of bedtime shocks...
...wants to protect herself, she usually can't: it is not uncommon for men to beat partners who refuse intercourse or request a condom. "Real men" don't use them, so women who want their partners to must fight deeply ingrained taboos. Talk to him about donning a rubber sheath and be prepared for accusations, abuse or abandonment...
...past 10 years, PhyloMed Corp., of Plantation, Fla., and the Bahamian firm Coral Pharmaceuticals have been conducting clinical trials of Immunokine, a drug derived from Thailand cobra venom, on people with multiple sclerosis. Virtually nontoxic, Immunokine seems to prevent immune cells from attacking and destroying the myelin sheath that protects nerve cells...
...second case, 1st Lt. John S. Serafini, an A Company platoon leader, and Sgt. Adam B. Gitlin, mistreated an ethnic Albanian suspected of a grenade attack on a Serbian bar. The suspect claimed Gitlin beat him during a hostile interrogation. "1st Lt. Serafini attempted to stick his sheath knife with a six- inch long blade into the wall," the report said. "... When 1st Lt. Serafini was unsuccessful in sticking the knife in the wall, he repeatedly stuck the knife into a table." In a second incident, Serafini unloaded his revolver, walked back into a room and held...
...easy part of the aging game; what's harder is performing the various tasks Chutka demands of the students, like reading the labels on a vast array of prescription containers when you're wearing goggles, or counting out the daily ration of pills with fingers rendered numb by a sheath of glove rubber. Near the course's end, the students are placed in a mock nursing home, where other students, trained to act like ward attendants, fail to bring them their food, or shove spoonfuls of apple sauce into mouths rendered immobile by the marshmallows or ignore them altogether. "They...