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...basket of symptoms with no clear cause," as one expert termed it, sick-building syndrome can confine itself to one office or spread through an entire building. Some workers will get it; others won't. Symptoms are usually confined to the workplace, but in some cases, like Polansky's, they can hang on for years, even after a worker has left a building. According to Dr. Claudia Miller of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, repeated exposure to toxins given off by molds and bacteria may hypersensitize people to the point that they react to even...
Despite these expert reviews, Southwest maintains that the company is the victim of a litigious campaign inspired by Houston immunotoxicologist Andrew Campbell, who first diagnosed sick-building syndrome in Polansky and 12 of her co-workers in 1994. Campbell, they say, is a biased observer, known for diagnosing sick-building syndrome and other maladies based on what the airline says is questionable evidence...
Meanwhile, on the one battleground that matters--the federal courthouse--Microsoft is still doing dismally. Take its central assertion that Internet Explorer is not a separate application, but an integral part of the Windows operating system. A government expert pointed out last week that Microsoft Press's computer dictionary defines a Web browser (like Explorer) as an application...
...them tend not to know it. Curious George too draws curious stares; many are familiar with the little monkey but not his tale. "What is shocking is that nobody in education is willing to say there are writers, poems, essays and books all Americans should read," says education expert Diane Ravich, editor of The American Reader. And less incentive for adventurous teachers to look for new ones...
...have fattened the most during the decade's boom. A survey released last month by U.S. Trust found that the wealthiest 1% of Americans say they gave away an average of 8% of their after-tax income in 1997, up from 5% in 1993. Says Paul Schervish, a philanthropy expert at Boston College: "A sleeping giant is awakening...