* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * david manning was seated in the fda conference room , listening to five simultaneous conversations.they had abandoned the goose chase and were calling from the real list of volunteers.the calls were going somewhat differently today.the two-minute conversations of generic babble had turned into twenty minute long tirades.some of them were still so irate at the way dominex had casually turned them into walking vegetables that they were demanding to know what the fda planned to do about it.a few of the fda team had gotten so flustered with heated calls that they had handed the phone over to manning.he assured each one of them that their report was being taken very seriously and that the fda was going to take action .