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...West was the host of a 60th birthday party at his house in Los Angeles for one of the boys, New York City--based brick salesman Elliott Liss. Half a dozen local Bronx Boys showed up, and, says West, they had such a good time, "it was the trigger to reunite and get close once again. We said let's do a bigger one in five years, and that became the first East-West reunion...
...Worst of all was the number of smokers with asthmatic children who didn't even try to quit or at least limit themselves to smoking outdoors rather than just moving to another room or the garage. Secondhand smoke has been proved, over and over again, to be a major trigger of asthma attacks. Many smoking parents purchased expensive air filters that have what Cabana called "questionable utility...
Many of his classic bits--a cheesy Vegas comic playing the London Palladium, or Religions Inc., his satire of Christian commercialism--sound a bit moldy today. But his blazing intelligence and hair-trigger sense of outrage are riveting. In a 1963 appearance on Jonathan Winters' Breakfast Show, Bruce careens manically from Castro's Cuba to W.C. Fields' anti-Semitism to his own fantasy plot for entrapping the judge trying his obscenity case in San Francisco. Yet this bitter, late-stage Bruce is not all that far from the sensitive comic who, in a 1959 radio interview with Studs Terkel, blames...
...great news." - By Jeff Israely Excess Baggage Unions representing Alitalia staff conceded 3,700 job cuts - fewer than the 5,000 sought by the airline - and stricter pay deals to keep the troubled carrier from bankruptcy. Final approval of the rescue plan by Alitalia executives this week would trigger a vital €400 million government loan...
...according to a study published last month in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. The report, based on interviews with the parents of 896 asthmatic children in 10 different American cities, contained some good news. Eighty percent of parents had a handle on at least one of the triggers that worsened their children's asthma. After that, however, many parents seemed to go astray, taking precautions that weren't helpful "and made little sense," according to Dr. Michael Cabana, a pediatrician at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, who led the study...