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WASHINGTON: After 90 years of regularity, America's No.1 laxative is set to be dumped from supermarket shelves. Novartis, the drug's maker, pulled Ex-Lax Friday after the FDA announced an intended ban of the product. Apparently high doses of phenolphthalein, Ex-Lax's active ingredient, causes cancer in laboratory animals. Novartis said it was "obviously disappointed," but promised that a reformulated Ex-Lax derived from the senna plant would be on store shelves in 60 days. Expect coffee and bran muffin futures to skyrocket when Wall Street's big players get back from the beach...
...virtues, there would be a lot of saints on Wall Street. The most hallowed of the lot would include the highly successful Michael Price, who oversees $26 billion at Franklin Mutual Advisers, and the equally prosperous CEO-for-rent Al Dunlap, who is doing a tour at small-appliance maker Sunbeam Corp. In a brazen display of cronyism, the two last week publicly denounced ITT Corp.'s tactics in fending off a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. Picture that: Price, whom FORTUNE magazine calls "the scariest s.o.b. on Wall Street," linking with Dunlap, whose endearing nicknames include "Chainsaw" and "Rambo...
...estimated that it would take 40 quadrillion years to solve the puzzle; the online team did it in eight months and in the process gave software designers new insights into building better security systems. Hackers have become so adept at finding security holes in the Internet that Netscape, maker of the leading Web browser, pays a bounty for any chinks in the program's encryption armor that are reported to the company...
...arguments are of cost effectiveness and the inexorable consolidation that comes with our culture. Still, there is melancholy when a friend moves on. A press is, well, guardian and watchdog and historian, the builder of pride and the maker of dignity and meaning in small places. In the little towns in the heart of our country, somebody usually arrived with a press and some typecases even before the churches and schools were built, certainly before a Civil War cannon was installed in front of the courthouse...
...Mocha Man's arrival was eagerly anticipated. In he'd come with the tools of his trade--espresso maker, blender, coffee bean grinder. And everyone would flock around him, ordering their ice-blended mochas, with a double shot of espresso, no sugar, just sweet 'n' low, extra-chocolate, banana, decaf, please...and just a dab of whipped cream. Or maybe a hot cappuccino...