| Cosmic's Adventure By Tommy Garrett
Of course, Garrett has a track record to rely on – his previous books on the life of Joan Fontaine, as well as his one-two punch of So You Want To Be In Pictures, and The Making Of Hollywood Stars, thumbnail sketches of the world's best-loved celebrities, were solid sellers. But that Garrett structured his non-fiction debut as a planned four-book series shows his belief in the story of Cosmic – and that readers will go along for the whole sleigh ride. I doubt I will be in the minority opinion to say you can punch my ticket. Cosmic's Adventure builds slowly with great attention to detail – die-hard gastronome Garrett lovingly details nearly every meal the book's protagonist consumes – but ends with a cliffhanger that left me hoping the writer has already inked a contract for a second Cosmic installment.
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The 2004-06 postings are purportedly to Richard Roberts from his political adviser and sister-in-law.
ORU President Richard Roberts is urged to use the ''voters and influence'' he controls to reap favors for Oral Roberts University in two years of weekly e-mails purportedly sent to him by his political adviser and sister-in-law, Stephanie Cantees.
''You intend to make ORU a political powerhouse where candidates will recognize that they will be expected to be asked questions and if elected when they come back for re-election they had better have some thing to show for the votes the students gave them,'' states one e-mail from ''Stef'' to Roberts' ORU e-mail address on Dec.
CAMPOS: Disease market lucrative
Two classic questions that confront medical science are how to define disease and how to measure and treat pain. Both questions are brought into sharp relief by the controversy over fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a term invented to describe a set of symptoms put into nontechnical language by the Mayo Clinic's Web site: "You hurt all over, and you frequently feel exhausted. Even after numerous tests, your doctor can't find anything specifically wrong with you. If this sounds familiar, you may have fibromyalgia." A cynic might reply, "If this sounds familiar you may merely be getting old, but you can be sure drug companies are developing products to help you manage your new 'disease.' " Sure enough, the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has just gained FDA approval for Lyrica, a drug that appears to lessen the pain associated with fibromyalgia, although why it does so remains unclear, as indeed does the more fundamental question of whether fibromyalgia even exists.
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