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...about working for Bill Clinton used to be his "purple rages"--violent bursts of room-shaking anger that could drain the blood from the face of even the most confident aide. Back then, Clinton's emotional engagement in his presidency could be measured by the intensity of his hair-trigger temper...
...Hoffa carries some baggage of his own. His candidacy in a rerun will surely trigger new scrutiny over ties to his father's old allies. According to the book Mob Lawyer by Frank Ragano and Selwyn Raab, James and his wife received thousands of dollars in cash as a wedding gift from Mob-connected associates of his father--a charge Hoffa has denied. And there's also the likelihood that the Independent Review Board that monitors the union will closely scrutinize Hoffa's campaign finances. He raised $3.6 million for the '96 race, including more than $2 million from untraced...
Still, there may well be a market for a good cold-decoy drug. Parents, for example, could take a whiff of BIRR 4 whenever their children come home from school with a cold. So could patients with severe asthma or emphysema, for whom colds can sometimes trigger a life-threatening battle for air. "It's a huge challenge to find a way to prevent colds," says Dr. Robert Couch, professor of microbiology at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. But think of the glory--and the prizes--for the scientist who finally does...
...victim was a woman in her late 60s or early 70s who, in despair, had pointed a pistol at her chest and pulled the trigger. As she lay in the emergency room of a small hospital in California's Central Valley, her condition presented no great medical challenge; it was fairly straightforward compared with many of the messy youth shootings that confront E.R. doctors nowadays. Yet the woman's attempted suicide proved to be an epiphany for the young physician who attended her. It not only altered his life and career but also would affect countless other victims of gunshot...
...humans. Until recently, animal testing and clinical trials of a single drug required an average 12 years of research and cost up to $300 million. But initial screening can now be done in a matter of days without using animals. Molecular biologists are able to isolate enzymes that can trigger human diseases, then expose those enzymes to a plant's chemical compounds. If a plant extract blocks the action of a particular enzyme--say, one that promotes a skin inflammation--they know the plant has drug potential. By extracting specific chemicals from the leaves, roots or bark with a series...