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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point, the only fair thing to say about Zicam is that its benefits are still not proved. Maybe if I'm desperate, I'll try it next time I get a telltale tickle in my throat. In the meantime, I hope to sidestep the problem by following the advice of Dr. Jack Gwaltney of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, a top cold researcher. "Wash your hands a lot with soap and water," he says, because cold viruses like to linger there. Don't put your fingers in your eyes or nose, as they give easy access...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Block That Cold! | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...paper creates a veil of artifice that is drawn over the subject in question. If anything, Morris' technique strikes me as honest. He views his subject through the veil of fiction. It is truth that has no place in a biography. History is a consensual lie. ALEXANDER M. STERN Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...m no Dr. Laura devotee, but as I read your article, I could hear the ranting and raving she would have for Webster Groves. Parents "allowing" kids to live as a married couple; Mama and her bowl of condoms. I'm not that old, but my high school sure wasn't like this. Could we send the adults back to school? I think we need a refresher called Parenting 101. LOUISE SIMSON Burlingame, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 15, 1999 | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...series of recurring visions since sometime around the Iowa straw poll. Men who are wearing suits and carrying loose-leaf folders put me in a plain room with a large mirror that I somehow know is one-way glass. They tell me I'm a focus group, all by myself. They assure me that I'll be paid $50 for my cooperation and be provided with a box lunch, choice of chicken-salad sandwich or smoked-turkey-and-arugula wrap. I should be aware, they say, that my lunch choice, coordinated with my party registration and weighted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugo Boss for Prez! | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

They tell me that, even though it's months before the first primary vote is to be cast, they've interviewed or surveyed or analyzed everybody else in the country. I'm the only one left. If I'm not willing to be a focus group, there can be no more focus groups, and everything will go sort of fuzzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hugo Boss for Prez! | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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