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BLACK-BOX WARNINGS For a pharmaceutical, it's the equivalent of a SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK sign, and this year the Food and Drug Administration issued a couple of big ones. One was for Strattera, a commonly prescribed treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. It earned a boxed warning after reports linking the drug to suicidal thoughts in children and teenagers. The other drug to earn an alert was the popular painkiller Celebrex, part of the class of so-called COX-2 inhibitors that came under scrutiny last year for their heart-related side effects. Its label now warns...
...domination of the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team over its competition is safe for another week. The Crimson (4-0, 4-0 Ivy) logged another win on Friday, beating Columbia (1-1, 1-1) 159-84 in New York. With the victory Harvard extends its winning streak to 14 straight dual wins. “We did not exactly swim our top line,” co-captain Joanna Lee said. “We were still expecting to come through strong, though.” The Crimson was able...
Thirteen may be an unlucky number for most, but it was gold for the Harvard women’s swimming and diving team this weekend as it recorded its 13th straight meet win.Last year the Crimson (3-0, 3-0 Ivy) had an undefeated season and an Ivy championship. This year, it has started strong, winning its first two meets against Brown (1-1, 1-1) on Friday and beating Cornell (0-2, 0-2) and Dartmouth (1-1, 1-1 on Saturday.HARVARD 181, CORNELL 119HARVARD 189, DARTMOUTH 111Harvard finished the weekend with a dual meet against...
...Pearl of Africa,' Uganda has been beset by tribal rivalries ever since it won its independence from Britain in 1962 ... Ugandan soldiers have destroyed villages and crops and herded civilians into detention camps in an effort, as Abrams put it, 'to dry up the civilian sea that the guerrillas swim in' ... Some analysts suspect that the army may be out of Obote's control...
...David R. Laden Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. I don't believe the body and mind start to deteriorate after age 60. I maintain that we remain what we deeply believe we are, physically and mentally. On Nov. 15, I will be 89 years old. I am in excellent health, swim 1,000 yds. [900 m] twice a week, walk 2 miles [3.25 km] three times a week, work out with weights at least once a week and play tennis anytime I can find a partner. I feel as if I am in my early 50s, and my wife and students...