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...October Federal Judge Harold Baer Jr. decided that the first casualties of the heartburn wars would be the overblown claims, ordering both sides to withdraw or modify those that could not be proved. He later ordered SmithKline to correct a letter it had sent to doctors and pharmacists to "ensure that [they] had not been misled" about the lawsuits between SmithKline and J&J/Merck...
...occasion augurs more than traffic gridlock unlike any that Manhattan has ever seen. Outside of the champagne parties at Turtle Bay, site of the U.N. headquarters, the anniversary stands to produce a feast of cynicism about the visions of 1945. From this angle, the organization's ambitions look overblown and its bureaucratic arthritis embarrassing. As fashion statement, the U.N. is growing scandalously demode...
Some residents dismiss their neighbors' fears as overblown. While arsenic can be a fast-acting killer, the form found in gold-bearing ore is far less potent than the fabled poison and remains inert until it comes into contact with air or water. And few researchers have studied--much less established--possible links between long-term exposure to gold-mine tailings and damage to human health. "It's all debatable," says Dan Ziarkowski, an expert on hazardous materials for the state Environmental Protection Agency. True, chronic exposure to arsenic has been connected to cancer and kidney disease. But, Ziarkowski says...
Among the many memorable things the O.J. Simpson trial has wrought is a large and varied cast of characters with an overblown sense of their own importance. Starting with a few lawyers and moving on down through some of the dismissed jurors to the Kato Kaelins and Faye Resnicks, members of this new American gothic have milked the mikes, signed book contracts and chatted on Larry King Live with abandon. But one person whose self-image may be right on target is former detective Mark Fuhrman. "I am the most important witness in the trial of the century," Fuhrman purportedly...
...most pretentious piece of crap you've ever heard in your life?" He's half right. Procol Harem's famous ditty (and only hit) has always been annoyingly obscure. But it's also strangely beautiful. Lennox's eerie modern version of the song is almost an improvement on the overblown original...