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WARREN BUFFETT The Berkshire Hathaway guru prefers companies like Wrigley's because the Internet won't "change how people chew gum." Currently down only $4 billion. WAS WORTH: $32 billion in 1999 NOW WORTH: $27.6 billion PAUL ALLEN Microsoft co-founder quits board of directors last month to focus on Web ventures, some of which Pop.com WebHouse) have been real duds. WAS WORTH: $22.4 billion in December in Microsoft stock NOW WORTH: $12.4 billion...
...himself to be a brass band of hope, ideas and energy. His critics fault the slow pace of reform he has brought to the U.N. They argue that even armed with a management degree from M.I.T., he is badly overmatched by the U.N.'s thick bureaucracy. But mostly they chew away at his idealistic, moral world view. The U.N. continues to have its problems--the embarrassment of having peacekeepers taken hostage in Sierra Leone, the contempt of the U.S. Congress. But these haven't diminished the high polish he has brought to the job. Annan, 62, is a miracle...
Here's something to chew on: Several episodes ago, the Tagi tribe formed a voting alliance that, if it stayed intact, would continue until they voted off every Pagong member, one by one, for five weeks - which, so far, they've done. The producers knew that. They knew, then, that they were looking at a month of suspenseless votes, as the Pagong lined up for the slaughter like veals. This, in its way, could be as dangerous as having people knowing the winner. So why not float a rumor that some of the Pagong made it to the Final Four...
After a year of hard touring and residencies at some of the better tourist traps on Beale Street, the brothers lost their first bass player, recruited their huge, beatific friend Chris Chew and hit the road again, becoming mainstays of the Mississippi-Alabama-Georgia alt-rock circuit. They radiated so much talent, innocence and enthusiasm that an impressive roster of stars--Lucinda Williams, Beck, Warren Haynes, Al Kooper, Widespread Panic--have asked one or both to sit in. And as they developed a following and played longer sets as headliners, they found themselves opening up the hill-country sound with...
...drive yourself to the hospital. Call an ambulance. Then, if you think of it, chew on an aspirin; 325 mg is the recommended dose, and chewing gets the drug into the bloodstream faster. A single tablet can stave off some of the damage. Above all, don't tell yourself, "I can't be having a heart attack, I'm not feeling any chest pains." Let a doctor make the final call. For more information on heart attacks, visit time.com/personal or americanheart.org E-mail Christine at gorman@time.com