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These results should reassure parents who have been told their son or daughter needs inhaled steroids. "The word steroid is scary and confusing to people," says Dr. Gail Shapiro, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and a co-author of one of the papers. The first problem is that corticosteroids (the scientific name of the asthma drugs) sounds an awful lot like the anabolic steroids used by some body builders. They aren't. Not only are corticosteroids safer but the inhaler makes them especially effective as well. Breathing in the drug...
When he began to work, about 13 years ago, on the project that would ultimately become Bellow: A Biography (Random House; 686 pages; $35), James Atlas could hardly have foreseen that his subject would father a daughter (at age 84) in late 1999 and produce a best-selling novel the following year. Atlas' book is thus considerably less conclusive than he surely intended. Among his many remarkable achievements, Bellow has outlived his own life...
...woman and a mother," but she could be ruthless: her hamhanded suppression of a Marxist insurrection in 1971 resulted in 20,000 casualties. Bandaranaike had a heart attack in a car on her way home from voting in the elections won by the party led by her daughter, President Chandrika Kumaratunga...
...radio call-in show that a Jewish mob intended to torch his house. Bishara, a member of parliament from Nazareth, advocates an end to Israel's Jewish character in favor of "a state of all its citizens." He rushed home to evacuate his pregnant wife and two-year-old daughter, and at midnight a crowd gathered outside his home and stoned it. "Imagine if Arabs had attacked the house of a Jewish member of parliament," says Bishara. "They would have shot them. At my house, the police were just trying to persuade the mob nicely to go home." And there...
Once upon a time, Robb was regarded as presidential material--a square-shouldered moderate who had commanded a rifle company in Vietnam, married Lyndon Johnson's daughter and co-founded the Democratic Leadership Council that dragged the party back to the political center. Now, at 61, he's one of the Senate's most endangered incumbents, running a campaign in which he seems to have the bearing of a Senator but not the substance. Polls have him running anywhere from 3 to 10 points behind his Republican challenger, George Allen, son of a former Washington Redskins coach and, like Robb...