Word: chalkings
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...they didn't (it was a very well behaved group), and the debate went on. And although the proceedings were short on substance and long on vitriolic style, each candidate managed to chalk up a few points here and there...
HALE AND HEARTY Chalk up another one for women. A study of nearly 85,000 nurses shows that since 1980, coronary heart disease--the leading killer of women in the U.S.--has plummeted 30%. The decline is mostly attributable to better diet: women are eating less red meat and fewer high-fat dairy products while chowing down on more of the good stuff, like fiber. The fact that more of them have kicked the smoking habit helps too. That's not to say the battle is over. Doctors report that if obesity were licked, heart disease would drop even further...
...Chalk it up to The Sixth Sense or the spiritual-supernatural drama Touched by an Angel, but the departed are no longer taking death lying down. And the spirits of TV present are no longer mere bogeymen or punch lines. They're, well, spiritual spirits: kindly characters, cast in emotional plots, who succor more than scare...
GIVE ME YOUR WIRED The Ellis Island Experience ($39.99) is a new CD-ROM that documents the immigrant experience of that famous portal to America, from the chalk marks put on the coats of those with health problems to the Austrian woman who thought the Statue of Liberty was a statue of Columbus. It's a story that deserves to be retold in every medium, and it's told well in this...
...living large. Texas tort king Joe Jamail is widely known as the world's richest lawyer, with a net worth of $1.2 billion. When Frederick Furth, a top San Francisco trial lawyer, isn't litigating antitrust cases, he is engaging his passion for wine at his 1,200-acre Chalk Hill vineyard in Sonoma County, Calif. Wayne Reaud (pronounced Ree-oh) has used his hundreds of millions of dollars in fees from asbestos and other "toxic tort" litigation to buy the local newspaper and a chunk of downtown real estate in his hometown of Beaumont, Texas. Maryland trial lawyer Peter...