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Whether you're facing a midlife crisis or you just got permission from Mom to quit the piano, now you can live your dream of wailing on a six string. The fret board on Optek's PC-connected Fretlight guitar optekmusic.com $600) lights up to show you where to put your fingers for chords and melodies. Ready for your world tour? Plug into any amplifier, crank up the volume, and pray that those desktop lessons paid off. --By Wilson Rothman
...Don’t fret, sexually frustrated Harvardians: an alternative to this Ivory Tower’s dating scene is just a click away...
...admit she can't make it through the day without her meds, and her powerhouse weapon was Vioxx. It helped destroy any pain, any time. Last September, when she learned that Vioxx was being pulled from the market by its manufacturer because of side effects, Rickhoff began to fret. "I knew from past experience that when I'd run out of a prescription, I would start to ache all over. I was so very distressed." She got a letter from her pharmacist urging her to return her supply of the drug, but she felt tempted--"very, very tempted"--to hang...
...Assembly, have promised to include Sunnis in the government. Ensuring Sunni participation is crucial to the Assembly's most important task: writing a new Iraqi constitution, which must be drafted by Aug. 15 and put to a nationwide referendum by Oct. 15. Sunnis in and outside Iraq fret that a Shi'ite-dominated Assembly might produce fears of an Iranian-style Shi'ite theocracy taking root in Baghdad. But Iraqi Shi'ite leaders have sought to allay those concerns by emphasizing that they will not press for velayat-e-faqih, or rule by the clergy, which is dreaded by Sunnis...
...people before they fall through the cracks. Brown, for instance, never slept on the streets, and U.S. VETS is helping him with job interviews. But with so many deployed in a war that could be psychologically scarring, homeless shelters are bracing for an influx of returning soldiers. And advocates fret that if the problem grows, resources may not: the federal budget has cut funds for veterans' housing two years in a row. --By Julie Rawe. Reported by Jeffrey Ressner and Amanda Bower