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WASHINGTON: Perhaps the old saying that nobody should watch sausage being made, unless they really want to know what is in it, applies to commercially-raised beef. In an attempt to protect American consumers against Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, the Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it is preparing to ban...
Above all, for a lot of people the wonder drugs don't work any wonders. Estimates of how many patients show no improvement or can't tolerate the side effects vary from 15% to about 33%. For them, the promising developments all around only threaten to deepen their isolation. They...
But a good many people found a way to go through life with one foot in the grave, one flooring the accelerator. They let their drinking get out of hand, figuring their T cells would wear out before their livers. They indulged big-ticket impulses. Frequent-flyer miles were accumulated...
"For in the fatness of these pursy times/ Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg," says Hamlet to Gertrude. Pursy means short-winded, in poor condition.
Oedipus, schmoedipus. Scientists have found "a significant correlation between the presence of the short gene and... neurosis" [BEHAVIOR, Dec. 9]. Are they talking about a life of dread-filled consternation, apprehension, psychic tension, imagined sin, constant self-recrimination and a fear-based view of life? All this is the result...