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...April 1956, I got lucky and landed a job as a business writer at TIME. "Son," my interviewer had asked, "do you know anything about business?" Stretching reality like bubble gum, I replied, "Sure, sure, I like business very much." In fact, I didn't know a stock from a bond. But I got the job anyway...
...evening while we were out hunting, I sat down with John to watch the desert sunset. John was 14 and had stopped attending school the year before. I asked him why. He said he didn't need it. And as I looked into the sunset over the gnarled gum trees, I tried desperately to formulate a response. I couldn't. I couldn't disagree with...
Nicotine-replacement therapy is designed to temper the acute symptoms of withdrawal, such as irritability, sleeplessness and anxiety. Nowadays you have a choice between gum, skin patches or nasal sprays. These substitutes still deliver nicotine to your bloodstream, but more slowly than smoking does and at a lower dose. Gums and sprays work more quickly to ease withdrawal, although doctors report that these products are also subject to abuse. Many people find the patches easier to use, and they are better suited to those who suffer from nasal allergies or sinusitis. Pregnant women, heart patients and folks with high blood...
...Airline pilots in Germany asked their employers to start offering nicotine gum to stop smoking passengers from having an attack of "airrage" during long flights. (Suggested co-star: wrestler Steve Austin...
...legal paperbacks is now jumping off the page and coming alive as it is performed by the original actresses. We can hear all the little details like those "double clicks" that an unsuspecting Lewinsky notes at one point, which the duplicitous Tripp is able to pass off as "my gum." And, of course, we get to hear Monica's voice for the first time. Guessing what the ex-White House intern sounds like has, it seems, become America's favorite parlor game. A recent CNN/USA Today poll shows that 53 percent of respondents suspected she possesed a "high and childish...