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...first-years who are reading this column, I wish I could offer you some advice on how to avoid the temptation to engage in 200 meaningless three-minute conversations over the course of the week. Since I can’t think of any, though, I would like to give you some pointers on how to cope with the inevitable small talk...
...everyone. According to Dr. Yung Chen, director of the Stanford Interventional Spine Center in Stanford, Calif., the ideal candidate is someone who has only a mildly herniated disk--meaning the damaged disk hasn't completely ruptured or extruded too far outside its normal confines within the spinal column...
...think that the arrangement of stories on the front page or the order of stories on the evening news offer readers or viewers a little bit of serendipity. That is, a reader can start off reading a story about George Bush and get interested in the story one column over on new kinds of cell phones. And that does happen. But this is a contrived serendipity engineered by someone's editorial judgment. Surfing the web, for better or for worse, offers genuine serendipity of a kind that is not predictable or arranged. And that's what really scares old media...
Presto. You can find the TIME archive at www.time.com/archive or you can go to the time.com home page and use the search tool. Let's see, Didn't Margaret Carlson write a column a few years ago about older mothers having children? Enter "Margaret Carlson" and "older mothers" in Search, hit the arrow button, and voila, there it is on your screen...
...Republicans are praying that 98-year-old Strom Thurmond hangs on until his term ends next year, when South Carolina Congressman Lindsey Graham, who's said he'll run for Thurmond's seat, stands a good chance of keeping it in the GOP column. If Thurmond leaves before his term?s up, South Carolina's Democratic governor would almost surely name someone from his party to fill the vacancy, giving Democrats a leg up in that race. What's more, Republican senators tell me at least three other GOP incumbents - Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Pete Domenici of New Mexico...