Word: bets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bet it's a gut course...
...fair bet that Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel sniffled, sneezed and complained of stuffy noses. In fact, rhinovirus, above, with its more than 100 identified strains, has probably been around even longer than humans. With age comes wisdom, which in the case of this virus means the ability to resist every concoction--from chicken soup to zinc lozenges--people throw at it. So far, modern medicine has met its match. Still the best treatment: aspirin, rest and lots of fluids...
...results were phenomenal. Microsoft critics, who had bet that Explorer 3.0 would be no more than too-little, too-late Internet technology, were silenced by the program's sheer undeniable quality. The browser's slick interface drew on Microsoft's years of consumer-products research. And though there were flaws--it has several prominent security holes, and no Macintosh version is in sight--3.0 had brightly colored, easy-to-use buttons, was cleverly designed and ran smoothly with Windows 95. In short, the thing looked like a high-grade consumer product...
Luis Torres, 60, a retired editor in San Antonio, Texas, wrote, "I've served in your army, paid taxes like everyone else and tried to live an ethical life, and as a citizen of this country, you can bet your booty that I want the same benefits that others enjoy...
Double baby-shower time: singer Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher, her lover, are to be mothers. Cypher is four months pregnant, but the two women are mum on how the baby was conceived. It's probably a safe bet that the dad isn't Lou Diamond Phillips, who was Cypher's husband when she met Etheridge. "Love comes in surprising packages," Cypher told a reporter...