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Americans tend to think of themselves as their own best doctor--now more than ever, as evidenced by the way we are scarfing down unregulated nutritional supplements to deter the Grim Reaper from a premature visit. Prompted in part by this growing self-care movement and in part by drug companies, the Food and Drug Administration is reviewing the process it uses to decide when a prescription medicine is ready to be sold freely on store shelves...
...time, Tiger's intensity came across as grim and joyless. It was wearing him out. He didn't like to deal with autographs. But he has visibly loosened up, with help from his exceptional parents, girlfriend and coach. And he has developed a restraint remarkable for one so young. Unlike a Greg Norman, who believes birdies are good and pars are boring, Tiger knows that pars can be beautiful in a major championship. He calmly, clinically took Pebble apart, knowing when to play safe, when...
Daniel Okrent's operatic lament "Twilight of the Baby Boomers" [LIVING, June 12] struck us as far too pessimistic. Amid all those grim statistics, fear and loathing and laments over a future of Metamucil bingeing, Okrent left out one significant factor: baby-boomer women in their 40s and 50s say, in study after study, that they have never felt more self-confident or been happier. Women of this generation, who have redefined so much, are redefining middle age and exulting in the options and opportunities they now have. Sorry, but they are not miserable. And, yes, they remember...
...Video Music Awards she wore a tiny purple pastie over her otherwise exposed left breast; in the latest Vibe she poses like a plastic blow-up doll, her lips parted suggestively to form a moist pink oval. Unfortunately, behind the getups and the come-ons, the reality is grim: Lil' Kim's new rap album, Notorious KIM (Queen Bee/Undeas/Atlantic), is a bomb. It's the Battlefield Earth of this summer's rap albums...
Armed with the grim numbers, Warner Brothers executives probably spent Thursday night huddled around small George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg voodoo dolls, praying to the movie gods and tossing salt over both shoulders in preparation for Friday?s opening of the much-hyped "Perfect Storm...