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...TIME that Bechler would have known from a medical exam three days before he died that he had borderline high blood pressure. Two years ago, Perper says, Bechler had a liver test that showed abnormal results. It's unclear whether Bechler consulted anyone before taking Xenadrine, but the team doctor said he has advised the O's not to use ephedra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Major League Loss | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...meeting the two-year requirement? Yes--but you can take a partial exclusion based on how long you owned and used the home, if you sold it for certain reasons. These include a shift in place of employment of more than 50 miles; a health problem for which a doctor advised moving; and "unforeseen circumstances," ranging from divorce, job loss, multiple births from a pregnancy to a natural or terrorist disaster. "If you fall under one of these safe harbors," says Lewis Fernandez, deputy associate chief counsel of the irs division overseeing the regulations, "we will not challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Home (Tax) Free | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...economic crunch continues, both governments and corporations are watching their employees' health as carefully as their fiscal health - and trying to get staff to work at full capacity. But grand initiatives to boost attendance have run aground due to everything from union pressure to slack doctors to sneaky employers. In the Czech Republic, for example, it's not just the workers that abuse the system. Since the government picks up the sick-pay tab, some employers put workers on sick leave during seasonal drops in demand. As Jiri Hofman, deputy minister of labor and social affairs, told Time: "Some companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absent Minded | 3/2/2003 | See Source »

...Greene novel stars Oscar-nominated Michael Caine as Thomas Fowler, the middle-aged London Times foreign correspondent covering the French-Indochina war in Saigon. Fowler, who lives in Vietnam with a beautiful ex-taxi dancer named Phuong (Do Thi Hai Yen), finds this lifestyle imperiled when a young American doctor, Alden Pyle (Brendan Fraser), falls in love with Phuong and tries to wrest her away. As the eponymous “quiet American,” Pyle is rather the opposite—his naive idealism and fervent democratic bent wreak havoc in issues apart from the cynical Fowler?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Listings, February 28-March 6 | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

After getting together in 1984, the band started recording the following year and made a total of seven records, with such delectable titles as “Hot Chocolate Massage” (Absolute A Go Go, 1990) and “Milky Juicy” (Doctor Dream...

Author: By S.m. Skier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tiny Lights at the End of the Tunnel | 2/27/2003 | See Source »

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