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There was a time when graffiti were funny ("Nietzsche is dead -God"), or perceptive ("Even paranoiacs have real enemies"). Nowadays wild splashes of spray paint are in vogue, along with endless repetitions of names and street numbers. A New York adolescent who signs himself Taki 183 is said to be the champion, having defaced hundreds of walls, posters, street signs and subway seats. The New York subway system alone spends $500,000 a year to clean up after Taki and his myriad little friends, and there is no end in sight...
...HEADACHES OF CHILDHOOD One child in 10 misses school because of severe headaches, but relief may be available. A new study shows that zolmitriptan, a nasal spray for grownup migraines, is also safe and effective for kids...
...dark days of the cold war, Soviet propaganda was predictably noisy and lurid. During Dictator Joseph Stalin's "Hate America" campaign of the early 1950s, for instance, Kremlin artists depicted U.S. soldiers as hideous, spider-like creatures, armed with spray guns and injection needles, demonically waging germ warfare. But the ad that filled three-quarters of a page in the New York Times last week was far more sophisticated. WHAT HOLDS BACK PROGRESS AT THE GENEVA TALKS? queried the headline. In four columns of dull gray type, paid for by the Soviet embassy in Washington, an editorial reprinted from Pravda...
...cure for the common cold. But the Journal did have some encouraging words for snifflers. In the same issue it published two studies, one conducted at the University of Adelaide, in Australia, the other at the University of Virginia, demonstrating that use of an alpha-interferon nasal spray can prevent 40% of colds. Says Dr. Frederick Hayden, who conducted the American study: "This is, to our knowledge, the first instance where it has been possible to show prevention of transmission of colds in an ordinary household setting...
Together, the two studies involved 150 families, each with four or more members. Every time one member showed the first signs of a cold, the rest of the family was instructed to begin using a nasal spray once daily for the next seven days. Half the families were using sprays containing alpha-interferon, one of several forms of the natural antiviral agent, while the others inhaled a harmless placebo. Over a period of six to eight months, the interferon families had 40% fewer colds than the placebo group...