Word: helping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...identities of pseudonymous SFM4M visitors would have been PR poison for a sizable chunk of its customers, declined to lift its curtain of privacy for the prying eyes of concerned officials. So Klausner got San Francisco-based PlanetOut, an online service for gays, lesbians and bisexuals, to help him pepper SFM4M with warning messages about avoiding the disease (condoms, monogamy and penicillin?). Syphilis is easily treated if caught early, but if left alone, it causes chancres and lesions and eventually leads to insanity and death ? all the while increasing vulnerability to other STDs, most notably AIDS. Now that...
...sailboat races, the Vendee Globe. Aboard wide-beamed, thin-hulled, 60-ft. racing machines--surfboards for maniacs, once they get to the 50-ft. waves of the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica--the Vendee Globe competitors are bound by brutally simple rules. They stipulate one boat, one person, no help, no stops, first home wins. The 27,000-mile course starts in November in the Bay of Biscay on the coast of France; points south through the horse latitudes and doldrums, past Africa to the bottom of the world; rounds Cape Horn; then turns north to home. The race takes...
When VH1 programming chief Jeff Gaspin came up with the idea for a documentary series that would help resurrect his then flagging network, he didn't anticipate that the show would also help resurrect his musician subjects' careers. But with its addictive human-interest stories of adversity (bankruptcies, addictions, arsons!) and redemption (rehab, comebacks, band reunions!), Behind the Music has done both...
...MANY BARGAINS, SO LITTLE TIME If you crave good deals but can't bother clipping ads, Shoppinglist.com may help. The site scans ads placed in newspapers by department, sports and drug stores in 26 metro areas from Boston to San Diego; then it picks out specials and neatly arranges them by category so you can find a deal in seconds. We thought early listings on this new site were a bit sparse, but it's still a handy shopping guide...
...have been carping about profligate lending since the Asian crisis began. But TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl points out that the IMF?s Russian loans "are just as much political decisions as financial or economic ones - an unstable Russia is deemed too dangerous to abandon, and the loans help keep up ties with Washington." And just think ?- some of that cash is flowing right back into the U.S. economy...