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...possibility that superaspirins could provoke some unforeseen side effects. Although clinical trials haven't yet revealed any problems, in many ways the real experiment doesn't begin until doctors start writing prescriptions for hundreds of thousands of people. The trouble with Duract, for example, showed up only after patients took the painkiller for several weeks--much longer than most subjects in the clinical trial. Researchers don't expect the same sort of trouble from COX-2 inhibitors. But they won't know for sure until long after the first million arthritis sufferers reach for a bottle...
Another source was retired Admiral Thomas Moorer, who at the time was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Moorer, now 86, indicated that sarin was "available" and offered what CNN took to be a confirmation that the deadly gas was used. He now says that he never had any direct knowledge that sarin was used, never meant to confirm its use and only heard about it later through "rumors" or "verbal statements...
...wedding when the media want to be all over it and you've got a thing about control must be nightmarish. Yet from all reports, the BARBRA STREISAND-JAMES BROLIN nuptials seemed to be merry enough. The most anticipated vows since J.F.K. Jr. first clamped eyes on Carolyn Bessette took place in the formal living room of the humble home the bride maintains in Malibu. The media were kept at bay with a phalanx of security guards, tents and enormous speakers that first blasted rain-forest noises so they couldn't hear the ceremony, followed by heavy-metal music (White...
...agony of those games in which the earth's rotation seems to stop, in which the stillness is broken only by the faint sounds of grass growing and paint drying. In April I attended a night game between the Yanks and the Mariners in which the first five innings took...
...years ago, as my parents were moving into a retirement home, we found Alexander's adoption papers, handwritten in elegant script and signed by two Hawaiians, Kailiino and Kekua, first names only, as was the Hawaiian practice at the time. While on vacation that spring in Maui, I took the papers into the Lahaina Restoration Foundation in hopes of learning more. "Too bad the name is Jardin and not Farden," said the museum director. He showed me a book, Sweet Voices of Lahaina: The Life Story of Maui's Fabulous Fardens, by Mary C. Richards. "The Fardens are well-known...