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Still, there may well be a market for a good cold-decoy drug. Parents, for example, could take a whiff of BIRR 4 whenever their children come home from school with a cold. So could patients with severe asthma or emphysema, for whom colds can sometimes trigger a life-threatening battle for air. "It's a huge challenge to find a way to prevent colds," says Dr. Robert Couch, professor of microbiology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. But think of the glory--and the prizes--for the scientist who finally does...
GOSSIP by Cindy Adams $18.50 for 1 oz. Over a bowl of pasta at Patsy's restaurant, the New York Post's society columnist Cindy Adams realized, "Gossip is in the air. Everyone wants a whiff of it." The smell? Spicy, with nothing subtle about...
...loosey-gooseyness about what he wants. He quickly rejects stories that sound even remotely as if they could spring from the mouth of Steve Dunleavy. During the past months, he has told the world in almost mantra-like fashion that he doesn't want his show tainted by the whiff of salaciousness. "There are a lot of other people doing those stories," he reasons. "Commercially, it's not viable. It's a crowded arena. If someone wants to say that's a crass, commercial decision, well, fine. Fine...
...Steve Case made nice with CompuServe employees. The world's largest Communist country came out in favor of privatization, while the underdog nation of Scotland voted to give itself a Parliament ? and at the behest of an English Prime Minister, too. There was a refreshing whiff of honesty in the air: Steven Biko's killers admitted their crime, and Pentagon Top Brass said Army sex scandals were a product of poor leadership. Even the doctor who once championed the disgraced weight-loss drug Redux ? and made a nice little profit in doing so ? came out and said his mea culpas...
...Blue Flower, 1918, that made early audiences cough nervously. And there is the late work From a Day with Juan, 1977, whose white ramp jacked up into heaven presents a bland portentousness that is a lifetime away from O'Keeffe's revolutionary start. Through it all runs a whiff of pure Americana, a longing for an untroubled world sprung from native soil. "It is breathtaking as one rises up over the world one has been living in," O'Keeffe once wrote, "and looks down at it stretching away and away...