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...store boasts eigh-foot-wide aisles so soldiers turning around don't find themselves staring down the barrel of a colleague's M-16. The U.S. has set no deadline for the 6,900 U.S. troops in Bosnia to come home, although their numbers continue to decline from a peak of 20,000. "I believe we are going to need a permanent presence of international troops," says Milorad Dodik, the leader of the Bosnia Serbs. Well, at least they'll be able to get clean underwear...
...DHHS set an objective of decreasing the percentage of caesarean deliveries to 15 percent by 2000 after it hit a peak of 25 percent. Currently, about 21 percent of births are casearean deliveries...
...reason is Brian, the family's talking dog. The early plots are standard-issue situation comedy (Dad gets laid off, Mom mounts a chaotic production of The King and I), but in the pilot script, at least, MacFarlane's pell-mell wit recalls The Simpsons' fevered early-'90s creative peak. Punch lines spill out furiously as the show spirals into multilayered flashbacks and inventive fantasies (when Peter wonders whether to lie to his wife, for instance, the angel and the devil that duel cunningly over his shoulders turn out to have angels and devils dueling over theirs...
Still, the news about Viagra is mostly happy. It works for many men, and Pfizer, the manufacturer, estimates that 5 million prescriptions have been written. The company's stock has risen from 75 11/16 in January to 116 as of last Friday (slightly down from its peak of 121 3/4). Sales may get a boost when a new ad campaign begins next year featuring that charismatic pitchman Bob Dole...
...such rarity. Starring Garry Shandling as a talk-show host, Sanders sharply satirized show business and provided a unique celebrity frisson as it toyed with the images of its famous guests. But its humor arose equally from its deeply flawed, densely realized characters. The finale was a peak and included a sequence with Jim Carrey that should become legend...