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...know it well: That cobwebby, vaguely woozy feeling that descends into the crevices of consciousness after a long, time zone jumping flight. For most of us, jet lag fades over the course of a day or two, during which time we may feel the need to take illicit and ill-advised nap - right in the middle of the afternoon! For flight attendants and pilots who make their living traversing the globe, however, the effects of jet lag may be a bit more serious...
...speak ill of the dead" is an ancient axiom. But there were few good words said of Bonny Lee Bakley, 44, after she was shot in the head in a car outside Vitello's Italian restaurant in Studio City, Calif. Gold digger. Star stalker. Con artist. Grifter. Those were the polite descriptions. Bakley was the mother of two girls born out of wedlock: a seven-year-old who she claimed was fathered by rock-'n'-roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis (paternity was never substantiated), and an 11-month-old she said had been sired by Marlon Brando's troubled...
...loving mom, a committed PTA officer, a regular face in the halls--and, some say, a royal pain. In an age when many schools would be pleased if most of their parents would venture into the building a couple of times a year, Kanofsky, of Skokie, Ill., is in her kids' schools as many as three times a week. The mother of a sixth-grader, an 11th-grader and a college student, she has crusaded for typing instruction, against the high noise level at pep rallies and for more-demanding instruction at the junior high. "When a principal says...
...early trials. Initially, most blood-vessel inhibitors were tested alone as potential magic-bullet treatments, and in patients with advanced cancer. But scientists now have a better understanding of how angiogenesis inhibitors prevent growth factors from reaching blood-vessel cells. They believe that, for now, in terminally ill patients, the best you can expect of the experimental drugs is to keep tumors from spreading. So researchers have begun to evaluate them in conjunction with traditional chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. So far, the results are promising. Preliminary trials involving patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer and kidney cancer suggest...
Many Harvard students agree that non-acutely ill students should be able to get to UHS via ambulance. “Any student who wants to be transported to UHS and does not need the services of a hospital emergency room should be transported to UHS,” says Victor Huang of the Student Health Advisory Council. “If ambulances cannot transport students to UHS, and HUPD is unwilling to transport certain urgent cases, then UHS needs to identify another source of transportation...