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...heavily advertised over-the-counter remedies: aspirin, Advil, Tylenol, Aleve. But how much do scientists really know about headaches and what causes them? Quite a bit, as doctors who gathered in New York City last week for a meeting of the American Association for the Study of Headache can attest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OH, MY ACHING HEAD! | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

Simple is often best. But as people who do their own form 1040s can attest, that isn't exactly a guiding principle of the U.S. tax code. So it's a bad joke that the current debate over tax relief for investors centers on a cut in the capital-gains tax, the 28% levy that you pay on stocks, bonds and other assets held more than a year and sold at a profit. The bad part is that while it would be relatively easy to install--Poof! Your tax rate is lower--what the Federal Government really needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAPITAL GAINS AND GAMES | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...staff when it comes to his hearty recommendation of one John Huang to the Clinton transition team in 1993. "I have known John Huang for four years, having worked with him on a number of economic development projects," Daschle wrote to transition-team head Richard Riley. "I can personally attest to John's strong background in trade and Pacific Rim issues." Huang, who has become the symbol of shady Democratic fund raising, was then an executive with the Indonesia-based Lippo Group conglomerate, and interested in positions at Commerce, Treasury and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. According...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MY RESUME IS ENCLOSED | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...Baltimore Ravens (from Miami Dolphins): Reinard Wilson, DE, Florida State. Mel Kiper, Jr., says he's too small. I say he's too good, as his 101 tackles, 22 tackles-for-loss and 13 sacks last year attest...

Author: By Bryan Lee, | Title: Picking Up the Pace: The 1997 NFL Draft | 4/19/1997 | See Source »

...years ago, I would have said that a person's sexual orientation is far too deeply ingrained to be changed by any means. The history of misguided and futile attempts to make gay people straight seemed to attest to that. But recently, researchers have had remarkable success in changing the behavior of laboratory animals by grafting nerve cells into their hypothalamus: animals that were bred to have an abnormally short, 20-hour sleep/wake cycle by grafting brain cells from other animals into them...

Author: By Simon Levay, | Title: Unavoidably Queer? | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

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