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...husband, who is nicknamed "Chase" within the family. Watson is a religious Catholic, and her brother John Herrmann, a chemical engineer with NASA, recalls that "she spent a lot of time at Mass praying over doing the right thing." Watson even managed to convince herself that she had withdrawn her candidacy by telling the mayor, "It's an awesome responsibility and a tremendous personal sacrifice, and I'm just not that noble." But the message was lost on Whitmire, who needed to name someone from within the department. Still, when an adviser first suggested Watson, the mayor asked, "You mean...
...rough-and-tumble 1988 campaign, came under fire for branding Democratic Senator Paul Simon a "weenie." Ann Richards' adviser, Robert Squier, produced one ad that altered a newspaper headline to make it seem that the paper, rather than Richards, was criticizing Clayton Williams. The commercial had to be withdrawn...
...become so popular that fashion shows are occasionally staged to show off new styles. Says Leila Takla, a Christian member of the Egyptian parliament: "As long as women are covering their heads and not their minds, it is an individual expression." Unfortunately, however, as laws are revised and rights withdrawn, the cloaking of Islamic women grows ever more profound...
...stage can have devastating consequences. Consider the case of Sid. (Names of the children in this story have been changed.) When he was three months old, his parents left him with the maid while they took a five-week trip. Upon their return, his mother noticed that Sid was withdrawn, but she did not do anything about it. When Sid was nine months old, his mother left him again for four weeks while she visited a weight-loss clinic. By age three, Sid had still not started talking. He was wrongly labeled feebleminded and borderline autistic before he received appropriate...
...denies clozapine must be carefully handled. Up to 2% of those who take the drug develop agranulocytosis, an immune-system disorder that is often fatal if left undetected. The FDA was fully aware of this danger: the drug had been released earlier in Europe and withdrawn temporarily for just this reason. But the regulators decided the drug's potential usefulness was too great to keep it off the market. To address the safety question, the FDA ruled that Sandoz must devise a blood-monitoring system that would spot early signs of the fatal complication...