Coughing & sneezing for cash.It pays to catch a co(d in Cardiff. The Welsh capital is home to the Common Cold Center, which researches and tests cold and flu treatments for companies like Procter & Gamble and Pfizer. Based at the University of Cardiff, the tempter has a ready supply of test subjects: 22,000 mostly cash-poor students who, between them, catch up to 80,000 colds a year. "I did get better," says Anna Taylor, 23, who offered up her stuffy nose for a study of a new decongestant decongestant /de·con·ges·tant/ (de?kon-jes´tint) 1. tending to reduce congestion or swelling. 2. an agent that so acts. de·con·ges·tant n. . Every hour, she snorted down a tube hooked up to an airflow-measuring device. Taylor admits that her fee may have contributed to her feeling better: In one day, her nose generated about $90. News & Trends was reported by Jonathan Allen Jonathan Allen (born 1966) is a visual/performance artist and magician based in London. His alter-ego "Tommy Angel", is a fictitious evangelist and magician satirising the genre of Gospel Magic, who Allen portrays in a variety of media including performance, photography, video , Marian Burros, Michael Marriott Richard Michael Harris Marriott was head of the London stock exchange in 1975 and in the same year was Master of the Skinners Company. He was the youngest master of the company for some time but also, ironically, was one of the few to die whilst in office. , Marlise Simons, Alex Williams, and Carl Zimmer of The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times; and Elizabeth Mayer. |
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