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Maria Lammers looked stunned when she heard the news from this reporter. Wiping her hands on her well-worn cook's apron, the bespectacled owner of the 25-year-old Gallagher's farm market and bakery could barely contain her excitement: "That's wonderful! That's great!" Fire up your ovens! It's a new dawn at the National Cherry Festival, for 72 years a celebrated rite of summer in quaint Traverse City, Mich. For the first time in more than two decades, you'll be able to buy a slice of freshly made cherry pie at the fest, which...
GENEVA: Scientists in the battle against AIDS have heard mostly good news this week at the 12th World AIDS Conference in Geneva -- but Wednesday the deadly virus again served notice that it is more than equal to the fight. A San Francisco man has a strain of AIDS that resists six of the 11 retrovirus-fighting drugs currently available, including -- and this is the scary part -- protease inhibitors, which are supposed to prevent the AIDS virus from being transmitted...
...jobs) were rewarded with a company-wide stock-option plan that for a painfully brief period was gratifying but now represents lost dreams. Said an employee on lunch break last week at Sunbeam headquarters in Delray Beach, Fla.: "I popped open a bottle of champagne when I heard the news [about Chainsaw...
There is no such generic term (yet) for the storage medium that's quickly replacing the standard floppy. Instead, each of the competitors in this booming market is selling its own thing: ultra-high-density floppies by many other names. You've probably heard of the Zip drive, for instance, the purple-hued peripheral from Iomega that reads and writes to 100-meg removable discs. Lots of people use Zips at my office. So, a few months ago, instead of doing a lick of research, I bolted out to the nearest Staples and picked up a Zip drive...
Charles Grodin's talk show has been canceled by CNBC. We talked to him as soon as we heard the news...