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...superiority, the drug almost didn't make it to the U.S. market. Approved in several European countries in 1969, it was quickly withdrawn six years later, after Finnish doctors reported that eight patients taking the drug had died of agranulocytosis, a sudden loss of infection-fighting white blood cells. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration halted even preliminary tests. "We assumed it was a dead product," recalls psychopharmacologist Gilbert Honigfeld, who helped develop the drug for Sandoz and is now in charge of marketing it in the U.S. American and European research eventually showed that agranulocytosis occurred...
Bruce Paltrow, the former executive producer of St. Elsewhere, is another TV creator with a sudden fondness for the confessional first person. Each episode of his new NBC comedy, Home Fires, opens with the main characters talking to a family therapist. Again the technique seems merely a way of tricking up an otherwise routine sitcom...
...anything but desperation prices. The U.S. hotel industry is severely overbuilt. Nearly 2 out of every 3 full-service hostelries have been losing money for the past two years. And while all the major chains are competing to offer the best summer bargains, few expect the sudden uptick to do much for their profits...
...home or away, threats lurk in the form of foods that produce allergic reactions ranging from nausea to death. Shellfish and nuts, especially peanuts, are among the most dangerous to the vulnerable, with the potential of causing anaphylactic shock, which is marked by sudden bronchial spasms, vomiting, plummeting blood pressure and heart arrhythmias. "Peanut allergy is a life-threatening disease," says Dr. John Oppenheimer of Denver's National Jewish Center. "The greatest nightmare for someone with a peanut allergy is dropping dead on a restaurant floor or at a potluck supper or a friend's dinner party...
Americans weren't the only ones irked by Japan's sudden assertion that other countries violate free trade. Japanese industry officials, many of whom have followed MITI orders to limit exports and market shares in order to ease trade friction, felt the report only fueled the frustrations of foreign traders. "I don't understand why they put out such a report," said a Japanese auto executive. "MITI would never have allowed us to say such things...