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LENFERA is generally safe to use, but possible side effects include stuffy or runny nose, headaches, goosebumps, hiccups, cramps, sensitivity to bright lights or glare, shingles, gingivitis, numbness of lips or upper palate, dry scalp, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), acid reflux, dizziness, hair loss, hearing loss, kidney stones, constipation and/or diarrhea, sudden loss or gain…
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If I've offended anyone, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to; I have tremendous respect for pretty and desirable women. 10s, all of them. So let me just start by saying that many years ago, decades or centuries I can't remember exactly when, I had a thunderous crush on Io. She claims that she signaled…
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"Thank you all for coming. We appreciate it more than you can possibly imagine. We've needed, and relied on, the support that all of you have given us. It's no secret that both Lynn and I have gone through some difficult times. It's good to host a cheerful event. A number of people…
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I was six years old when the war ended in 1945, so my memories are few and arise in no particular order. I remember hearing news reports on the radio that were datelined "Moscow"– but I conflated Moscow with Bosco, a brand of chocolate syrup popular in the 1940s. I remember that the floor of…
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The most erudite man that I ever encountered in my own person was James Hutton, a professor of classics when I was an undergraduate at Cornell back there in the 1950s. Professor Hutton bristled with knowledge – nor is this my opinion only, but one that is well attested by his international reputation and by the list of his…
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And so we've come to the end of the "holiday season" once again. Another Christmas, another winter solstice, another St. Lucy's day with its deepest of midnights. Even here in ever-sunny Colorado, things are a bit gloomy. However, I have every confidence that another spring is just around the corner. I don't need to bring greenery into the house in…
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I'm enchanted by a sentence in Othello that is spoken by Desdemona's lady-in-waiting, Emilia. She's helping Desdemona to undress and the two women are engaged in informal chat. Desdemona, perhaps wondering why she had the misfortune to fall in love with exotic Othello, allows her mind to wander. It comes to rest on a countryman of hers, a good-looking…
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In 1955, Duke Snider lived at 178 Marine Avenue (in Brooklyn's Bay Ridge). His was the middle house in this picture. Gil Hodges lived here, at 1120 32 Street. Two floors, 1400 square feet. Harold "Pee Wee" Reese and family made their home in 970 square feet of 9714 Barwell Terrace. Carl Erskine's home, at…
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I enjoy fighting off a sneeze. It takes practice and concentration. When the sneeze urge emerges, without warning, the battle is joined. On the side of the sneeze — dust or some other foreign particles passing through the nasal hairs, reaching the nasal mucosa, releasing a flood of histamines which irritate the nerve cells and…
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In 1895, my wise and courageous grandparents left the abysmal, backward Ukraine and struck out for the new world. Nine years later, my father was born in a cold-water flat in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The date of his birth: December 22, 1904, exactly at the winter solstice. "And they called his name, Emanuel, God…