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...temporary relief of mild allergies, doctors usually prescribe antihistamines, drugs that block the action of histamine, which is responsible for allergic symptoms. The antihistamine drugs in use for decades reduced swelling and other symptoms but led to drowsiness, an inconvenience in the office and a clear danger behind the wheel. But a newer antihistamine, terfenadine (trade name: Seldane), does not induce the need to nod. Other drugs helpful to allergy sufferers are cromolyn sodium, which in nasal-spray and eye-drop forms suppresses the release of histamine, and beclomethasone, triamcinolone and flunisolide, cortisone-based preparations that some doctors find...
...irreverent at heart. He's eager to put you at ease, but he gets miffed if you pry too closely. Just a few friends ever see the McCartney house, set in the forest in Sussex. His & Scottish estate is reachable only by foot across a bog or by four-wheel drive. Decades of Beatlemania haven't dehumanized him, but he has learned to be wary...
...large mall featuring a food outlet, a pharmacy and a liquor store with Korean- language signs, men with pump shotguns and high-powered pistols defended their businesses. A barricade of shopping carts was arranged in the parking lot, which was patrolled by armed Koreans in a four-wheel vehicle. As a pair of looters approached the mall, the guards fired 12-gauge rounds into the air to chase them away. Elsewhere a security guard was killed defending a Korean- owned store from attack...
First, we worked with a mock-up of a plane and wing, learning the sequence of commands that would get us from inside the plane to the final jump position, holding the wing strut, left foot on the wheel, right foot dangling in the 75 mph wind...
Then we stepped off the wheel onto the ground, threw ourselves into an arch and counted to four, while Kevin held flashcard pictures of parachutes in various states of malfunction over our heads...