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...Dallas high school jazz combo desperately improvises to kill time in an auditorium packed with local school-board members, education bureaucrats and fidgety students. The guest of honor, Lawrence Ellison, 55, is running a little late. Ellison is CEO and founder of the Oracle software company. And today at least, with his stock holdings outrunning those of Microsoft's Bill Gates, Ellison is the richest man in the world. His jet has just touched down at Love Field. So the combo plods on, trying to fill another 20 minutes...
...American and Northwest combo, says Greenwald, would have far greater route overlap (a red flag for competition-minded regulators) than the neatly complementary maps of United and US Airways. And United is divesting what little there is, at Washington's Reagan Airport, creating DC Air and handing it to BET mogul Robert Johnson in a little backyard lobbying of the Capitol crowd. But even that merger will get a very close look from the Justice Department, Congress, even the Europeans - not to mention the unions involved - and some analysts are giving it no better than a 50-50 shot...
ANALYZE THIS Which is a better way to treat depression--psychotherapy or medication? After years of debate, a major study confirms, for now, that the answer is a combo of both. Researchers studying 700 folks with severe, chronic depression--some had been afflicted for 20 years--found that symptoms like loss of appetite, difficulty sleeping and general unhappiness were alleviated in an astonishing 85% of patients after just 12 weeks of therapy paired with daily doses of the antidepressant nefazodone. Now that's something to lift anyone's spirits...
...tapping away at another dreary spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. By accident, you hit a secret combination of keys. Phfft!--the spreadsheet is gone, and you're flying over a landscape of rolling green hills, guided only by your mouse. Find another hidden combo, and--this gets curiouser and curiouser--you're crossing a zigzagging platform with fiery death on either side. Admit it. That's a whole lot more interesting than accounts payable...
...slipped under our door, we were nearly into the station at Greenwood, Miss., where a few local passengers boarded. Our breakfast companions were Claudia Ogle and Alma Holloway, a retired secretary and a bank administrator from Toledo, Ohio. When I mentioned that I had showered in the toilet-shower combo, they looked as scandalized as if I had announced that I had sunbathed topless on the engine roof at full speed...