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...forget where you put your keys, often misplace your glasses and certainly can't remember names as well as you used to. At bedtime, you stare haplessly into the bathroom mirror, wondering whether you've already brushed your teeth. Once you showed up for a dinner date at the wrong restaurant. What's happening? Should you regard these lapses as a sign of more serious memory problems, maybe even Alzheimer...
...great news for the Tribune Company, one of the nation's largest media conglomerates, which under current regulations would be forced to sell off holdings in major markets, such as New York and Los Angeles, if it wants to go through with its proposed acquisition of publishing giant Times Mirror. Not that Tuesday's report was a virtual Christmas in May for every media company; Murdoch's Fox, apparently outraged at the FCC's refusal to revise regulations keeping any company from reaching more than 35 percent of the national audience, stormed off to court and filed suit against...
...blessing in disguise," Loper sought a more meaningful career. He became first a classroom English teacher and later the head counselor at Chamblee High School, a magnet school outside Atlanta. He no longer has doubts about his present or his future. "When you can look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'I helped a young person be a better human being today,' that is a great reward," he says...
...also hard to believe some producers' claims of high-minded purpose, as when executive producer Paul Romer calls Big Brother "a mirror to society." (Last we checked, society consisted of folks allowed to leave the house.) Scoffs Burnett, comparing Survivor with Multi-Millionaire: "There is a big difference between taking 16 adventurers to an island and 50 morons lining up to get married after meeting a stranger on TV." Of course, 23 million people watched Multi-Millionaire. He'd better hope there's not that much difference...
...When driving down a busy, traffic-clogged street, I am enraged when I pull up behind a slow-moving car driven by a woman who is applying makeup. She can't possibly have her eyes on the road or concentrate on driving while primping and preening in her rearview mirror...