John Belushi and Steven Spielberg were two of the hottest names in Hollywood in 1979. Spielberg was coming off the crazy back-to-back success ofJawsandClose Encounters of the Third Kind, while Belushi was riding high thanks toAnimal Houseand his ongoing run onSaturday Night Live. Putting them...
“There is a reason why all these strains have different names – because a lot of them are very different,” said Lange. “But some strains with different names are actually very similar. The bottom line is there is a lot of confusion.” […] Lange and his colleagues...
Gang-related violence in the world of rap and hip hop was nothing new in the '90s, but in 1996, one of the more prominent names of the genre—Tupac Shakur—was gunned down in Las Vegas, Nevada. Sadly, he was not the only rapper to be slain that year: Seagram and Gangsta P, Dalla...
Emergency medical attention can be found on every corner, often sporting grandiose names (the Stamford Clinic) or claims (“Because we care.”) After a few hours, you realize why: Almost everyone wears a bandage, or walks with a hobble. (In Koh Phangan, the island’s hilly, ramshackle ...
After undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder in June, Forcier now takes a cocktail of prescription drugs to get through the day. "I've turned into a drug addict because of all the pills I have to take," he says. "Speaking about this brings back what happened. But it'...
After a 1988 earthquakein Armenia, the country received 5,000 tons of drugs and medical supplies worth $55 million. It took a staff of 50 people six months just to catalog the donations, most of which were only labeled with brand names; less than half were useful for emergency medical ...