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...becoming the leading cause of liver cancer and cirrhosis. Today's treatment? Mostly interferon, which is not always effective and has notoriously discomforting side effects like fever, chills, aches and pains. Researchers have developed a modified form of interferon called Pegasys that can be taken once a week instead of three times and has fewer, milder and more transient side effects. Best of all, Pegasys is two to five times as effective. FDA approval is expected soon...
...factory in Connecticut. Every day at lunchtime he would drive home and cry. "It was my worst nightmare come true," he says. His parents, a truck driver and a housewife with little money to spare, had refused to send him to college, and set him up with this job instead. "They weren't trying to be mean," says Searles. "College wasn't part of their world...
...Whittle a shiv out of lye soap b) Wear his own dark clothes instead of the prison's orange ones c) Churn coke with Robert Downey...
...worry, we're not reopening the case in Florida. We're thinking instead of those 538 electoral college voters who on Monday headed to their state capitals to cast their official ballots for Al Gore and George W. Bush. And if all goes as planned - and nearly everyone seems to think it will - Bush will go to bed as the proud custodian of 271 electoral votes, one more than needed to nab the presidency. Congress will count the votes on January 6 and then, at long last, it will all be official...
...inherent in the newly established republic, the electoral college, its opponents contend, is also a vestige of a paradoxically imperialistic philosophy toward democracy. The founders, it seems, did not trust the people to elect a candidate directly; the intellectual challenges of understanding a campaign might be beyond their ken. Instead, the people could vote for electors, who would travel, ostensibly on the voters' behalf, to cast their votes for the chosen candidate. It also was set up - for the same reason that each state has two U.S. senators - to ensure that large states didn't ride roughshod over their smaller...