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...VIEWED BY MANY in Hollywood and on Wall Street as among the pre-eminent media minds of his generation, a man who built the Fox Network, mentored both Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, and brought the world Saturday Night Fever and The Simpsons--for a man who has accomplished all that and made himself hundreds of millions of dollars in the process, Barry Diller sure acts as if he has something left to prove...
Cooking with gas, British researchers say, appears to increase a woman's--but not a man's--risk of developing respiratory ills such as wheezing, asthma and hay fever. Women may simply be more susceptible to the by-products of gas combustion--or they may just spend more time at the stove...
They're talking about it in the Bundestag and they're petrified of it in Beijing. In Washington, DC, they like it, but fear it will spiral out of control. Governments around the globe have caught Internet fever and are struggling to regulate this new electronic behemoth...
...supercharged stock market that has made IPOs the hottest way to raise money in the 1990s, just as junk bonds and cheap credit fueled the stock boom of a decade ago. The junk binge left the U.S. with a colossal hangover of corporate debt, and the IPO fever inspires some worries about the country's financial and economic health. Among other things, it raises the issue of whether a casino-like mentality tends to lure investors into high-risk and even dubious new issues, or tempt start-ups to race to market before they are ready in hopes of cashing...
...purer vaccine against whooping cough has been shown to be just as effective--or even more so--as the current available vaccine in preventing the disease in infants. It also causes fewer of the troubling side effects, such as high fever, local inflammation and lethargy...