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...problem with my health, but I had a sense something wasn't working correctly. Last September, I went to a doctor and told him to test me for every imaginable affliction. Finally, after six months of blood tests and consultations, the diagnosis came in March: I suffer from a mild form of Graves's Disease...
...response to Druid's violation, the commission decided to issue a stern warning, citing the restaurant's clean record and remorseful manager as the reason for the mild penalty...
Some of the artists do, however, have mild success in adapting the music. matchbox20 delivers a version of "Never Going Back Again" that produces a tension Fleetwood Mac never explored. Sister Hazel lives up to its reputation as a good adaptor of acoustic music in "Gold Dust Woman." One of pop's newest female sensations, Shawn Colvin, sings "The Chain" without Nicks' vulnerability, but with a level of sultriness that almost compensates. The sound comes across as mysterious and creative. But once again, hard to listen...
...YORK: The suits at TIME's parent company could be forgiven a mild case of angina Tuesday when this story moved on the AP newswire: "PBS Announces Bid to Acquire Time Warner." Said the press release, "Current Time Warner executives Gerald M. Levin and R. E. (Ted) Turner will be encouraged to apply for positions in the new company." A quick scan of the story -- which professed to be "embargoed until 12:01 a.m., April 1" -- revealed its lighthearted intentions. But AP didn't see the funny side, and ran an "urgent" disclaimer advising readers to ignore the story. "Managers...
...Overproduction and falling demand caused by the Asian economic crisis and the unusually mild winter has sent oil prices plummeting, while cheating has bedeviled OPEC?s attempts to reverse the trend by cutting production. ?Venezuela has been notorious for cheating,? says Baumohl. ?Although in the new agreement they?re going to cut back production by 200,000 barrels a day, they were, in fact, producing 700,000 barrels more than their OPEC quota allowed,? says Baumohl...