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They do have two "birthmarks" that enable others to tell them apart: Jocelyn has a scar next to her right eye from a fall when she was two years old and Jennifer has a mole on her chin from a childhood bout with chicken pox...
...Chicken Pox Shot Approved...
...Food and Drug Administration okayed the first chicken pox vaccine. Although for most people the disease is a mild, if annoying, infection, it kills up to 100 in the U.S. each year. The vaccine will be available in six to eight weeks and will cost doctors $39 a shot...
...regulations, especially under the guise of cost-effectiveness. Callous disregard for public safety is not new; in 1982, for example, the Reagan administration stopped the Department of Health and Human Services from issuing warnings that aspirin could cause Reye Syndrome if given to children with flu or chicken pox infections. Reye Syndrome caused about 360 deaths per year, as well as brain damage to many survivors, but the administration met privately with aspirin manufacturers who feared losses of $100 million, and was able to block warnings for three years. Another example is the administration's fight to block...
...quite delivers the musical climax that the material demands. It is quite canny to stage simultaneously the death of Valmont and his inamorata, Madame de Tourvel, aptly illustrating their bond beyond the grave. But here, and in the final scene, when Merteuil is snubbed, shunned and ruined by the pox, the music needs to be bolder, richer; the composer must make clear exactly how he feels about what has happened to his characters as, say, Berg does at the end of Wozzeck...