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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tedious task of nitpicking seems oddly out of date in an age when modern medicine has made so many gains against maladies far more serious than lice. Why, 20 years ago, a bottle of Kwell, a hot dryer and a good cleaning did the job. But today's louse, a.k.a. Pediculus humanus capitis, which nests in 12 million new heads annually, is a hardier bug, having grown resistant to the prescription drugs lindane and Elimite and the over-the-counter permethrin drug Nix, which remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family: The Lice Breakers | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...sleeping-dog inflation number, the Fed chairman told Congress ?- and, of course, the intently listening markets ?- to keep the music down just a little bit. "When we can be preemptive, we should be, because modest preemptive actions can obviate the need of more drastic actions at a later date that could destabilize the economy," he told the Joint Economic Committee. Folks, that?s as clear as the man gets without actually saying it: The Fed will raise interest rates one quarter point at its meeting on June 29. Says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl: "After two weeks of wondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greenspan Fiddles With the Volume Control | 6/17/1999 | See Source »

...explanation and apology for the Belgrade embassy bombing. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering?s account of how the "tragic mistake" occurred was dismissed Thursday by China?s Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan as "unconvincing and unacceptable." He demanded that Washington come up with something more than the out-of-date-map explanation, and "severely punish" the individuals responsible before Beijing would consider resuming military and trade talks with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You're Not Groveling Enough, Says China | 6/17/1999 | See Source »

...been twice divorced and was financially comfortable enough to contemplate retiring. Then, at a party, she met Ron Dozoretz, head of FHC Health Systems, a large behavioral-health, managed-care outfit. (His estimated net worth, according to Virginia Business magazine: $250 million.) He proposed two weeks after their first date, and she moved with her new husband to Norfolk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doyenne Of The Dollars | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Through a series of desperate telephone calls, he found Dr. Robert Smith, a skeptical drunk whose family persuaded him to give Wilson 15 minutes. Their meeting lasted for hours. A month later, Dr. Bob had his last drink, and that date, June 10, 1935, is the official birth date of A.A., which is based on the idea that only an alcoholic can help another alcoholic. "Because of our kinship in suffering," Bill wrote, "our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BILL W. : The Healer | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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