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...made many crude, irreversible mistakes. But maybe not. In a country accustomed to the ruler's answering for everything, even burned stew and spilled milk are held against the Czar and are never forgiven. Similarly, shamanism has always been a trait of the Russian national character: we cough and infect everyone around us, but when we all get sick, we throw stones at the shaman because his spells didn't work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mikhail Gorbachev | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...year? It predicts nearly twice as much money -- $1.9 billion -- for 1998. Even better news awaits those web sites still in the game by the end of the century: $7.7 billion in 2002. Cable TV, by comparison, had ad sales of $7.4 billion last year. And look how healthy (cough,cough) cable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Banner Year | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...have no problem with other people's drinking when they do it because they view alcoholic beverages as aesthetic delights. It just ain't my bag, baby--one whiff of wine and I have flashbacks from childhood of having to swig Robutussin to cure a bad cough. But since I've sniffed some pretty strong potpourri in my time, I can appreciate the value of a good buzz...

Author: By Murad S. Hussain, | Title: A Teetotaler's Thoughts | 4/2/1998 | See Source »

...problem at the beginning of February. Dr. William Berger of Mission Viejo, Calif., picked up on it two weeks later. That was just about when Dr. Donald Pulver of Rochester, N.Y., realized, as he puts it, that "everybody, including my wife, was complaining about itchy eyes, stuffy nose, dry cough--the classic signs of an allergy attack." Classic, except that the allergy season wasn't due to begin for at least a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Nino's (Achoo!) Allergies | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...bathroom floor, dead of "cardiac arrythmia"--a severely irregular heartbeat--brought about by "undetermined causes." Doctors said there was "no evidence of any illegal drug use" although a new book co-authored by three former Presley bodyguards maintains that "E" consumed uppers, downers and a variety of narcotic cough medicines, all obtained by prescription. He also was wrestling halfheartedly with a fearful weight problem and was suffering from a variety of other ailments like hypertension, eye trouble and a twisted colon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1973-1980 Limits | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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