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VIRTUAL COLONOSCOPY Despite Katie Couric's crusade to educate the public about the importance of screening for colon cancer, there are still too many people who resist being tested because of discomfort or cost; an estimated 70% of the population is never screened. A new noninvasive screening technique may offer those most at risk a lifesaving alternative. Dubbed virtual colonoscopy, it uses digital data generated by multiple computer scans to create a high-resolution 3-D image of the intestine, which can then be displayed on a computer screen and visually probed for tell-tale polyps...
...spoken by Gore campaign chairman Bill Daley: "All he does is lie." Hillary Clinton is "the witch" and, in an allusion to Vincent Foster's death, "the First Murderer." Half of America - the Democratic half - is "socialist." Or worse. After all, Gore won the popular vote because "Communist Kate Couric" and the rest of the media "prayed to Khrushchev" for a victory...
...KATIE COURIC, Today show co-anchor, weighs in with The Brand New Kid (Doubleday), illustrated by Marjorie Priceman. While Couric might not want to give up her day job, the well-intentioned book (also written in rhyme) deals with the dreaded dilemma of being the new kid in school. "The other kids laughed, gee this new boy was weird./ Too different and strange to fit in they all feared." While the students at first seem almost perversely indifferent to the new boy's discomfort, an act of kindness soon shows them that just giving someone a chance is all that...
...mission. As a New York restaurant consultant and the author of a guidebook called The Wine Avenger, Gluckstern has spent the better part of a decade crusading on behalf of Riesling, the dominant German varietal that has been cruelly stereotyped on American shores as tasting sweeter than Katie Couric dipped in caramel. "All grapes are not created equal," Gluckstern says. "There's an acid-sugar balance in great Riesling that you won't find in any other grape." Stubborn U.S. diners have mostly ignored him and gone on sipping their Chardonnay...
...School for Arts and Business in Queens, N.Y., Stephen Drakes, was there at 8 a.m., and he wasn't letting me near the p.a. Instead, he gave me a schedule of classes that he wanted me to visit. Because I hadn't been up at 8 a.m. since Katie Couric's colon was IMAXed on the Today show, it took me a while to realize I had been sent back to high school...