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...allergic to peanuts includes more than the usual paragraph of fine print. For starters, it's clear that the treatment is not a cure for peanut allergy. Not only might you have to take it for the rest of your life, but you would still have to avoid peanuts. And if it ever becomes available (a big "if," given the frosty relations among the companies involved in its development) the treatment is likely to be quite expensive--at least $10,000 a year...
...here's the tricky thing about peanut allergy: there's no way to predict who is prone to anaphylaxis and who isn't. Many people who develop anaphylaxis previously suffered only a mild reaction after consuming peanuts. Couple that with the fact that it is increasingly difficult to avoid peanuts--which, in addition to obvious sources like peanut butter and peanut oil, may be found in plain chocolate candies, sunflower seeds and other foods because of cross-contamination in processing--and you can see why doctors are eager to find better treatments...
...least, folks with peanut allergy have to do what they have always done: avoid peanuts in any form, keep an EpiPen on hand and try to lead as normal a life as possible...
...Latin culture--for instance, George is Mexican and his wife Angie (Constance Marie) is Cuban. But it also brings a different kind of diversity to TV. Few sitcoms since Roseanne have taken a raw, personal look at a working-class family and its psychological baggage. Most family comedies today avoid dark themes or sublimate them, as in Everybody Loves Raymond's passive-aggressive squabbles. Lopez is willing to get ugly, albeit with a grin. After a fight between George and his mom (Belita Moreno), Angie asks, "Are you never going to talk to her again?" "No," he deadpans. "Eventually...
...what may be a dress rehearsal of any battle for Baghdad, British forces are advancing quickly on Basra. But their commanders have indicated that they plan to avoid fighting street by street for control of this city, planning to enter only once they'll be welcomed in. That possibility is not as outlandish as it may sound - Basra was the epicenter of the bloody Shiite revolt against Saddam in 1991, and coalition commanders have reason to suspect that Saddam's control of the city may once again be broken by an internal uprising. Images of coalition forces being welcomed...