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...rear-view mirror to keep watch over the kids. It's a charming clip and an apt metaphor for Morissette's career. As a teen star in her native Canada, she played the part of the well-behaved good sister. Now, on her U.S. debut album, Jagged Little Pill, she has transformed herself into a passionate and unruly rocker. But like the parent in the front seat, Morissette, 21, has kept her disparate selves in check and stayed on the road to success: this week Jagged Little Pill hits No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and in next week...
...very own record label. Madonna's last few records have sold only about 3 million copies apiece, substandard for her, but the deal's overall returns look better because her private label has fared well (its latest success: imported Canadian diva Alanis Morissette, whose Grammy-nominated CD Jagged Little Pill has hit No. 1). The Rolling Stones' two albums since their 1992 $35 million contract with Virgin have had mild sales, but the fact they brought with them a chunk of their lucrative back catalog has made the deal more palatable...
...beta-carotene craze remains to be seen. The studies showed no harm in taking lower doses (3 mg) of the supplement, and the vitamin industry was quick to exploit that opening, suggesting that taking beta carotene might still be beneficial for nonsmokers. Yet even die-hard pill takers have to agree that the safest and cheapest form of prevention is to do what mother said, and eat those vegetables...
Ruth A. Beckett is a wife and mother who last week committed herself to take a mystery pill every night for the next eight to 12 years. In this "double-blind" study, neither she nor the researchers giving her the pills knows whether they are estrogen or merely placebos...
Quick-fixes are nice. When you've got a headache this big, you know exactly what's written all over it: directions on how to pop a pill and say good-bye to the pain. When your stomach hurts, you expect to find relief faster than the time it takes to spell it. A child-proof cap is usually all that stands between us and physical well-being...