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...Long debated as a concept, the polypill is ready for trial in Australia and New Zealand. A half-pink, half-white tablet manufactured by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories in India, it contains small doses of several well-known medications: aspirin (to prevent blood clots), a statin (to lower cholesterol), and two blood-pressure-lowering agents. When two British researchers pushed the case for the polypill in a 2003 report in the British Medical Journal, they argued that if taken daily by people with vascular disease and those aged over 55, it would cut the incidence of heart attack and stroke...
...years. That's too bad: The country, like Kenya to the south, boasts remarkable wildlife and photo-friendly tribes. Ethiopian Orthodox Churches in the arid north - some of the oldest Christian churches in the world - are hewn straight out of rock, with wild Biblical murals that make a Pink Floyd album cover look staid. Yet, for most people around the world, Ethiopia is still associated primarily with famine and despair. And who wants to holiday in other people's misery? My guide in Bahir Dar was insistent: "Please tell your friends that this is a special, wonderful country." Certainly, traveling...
Well, O.K. But the merchandise in the theater lobby--pink-lettered baseball Ts, sweatpants with OMIGOD! on the rear--suggests that producers already know which sex will be filling most of the seats. And if they don't show up, the perky young women onstage won't be the only ones crying "Omigod...
...five years, an army of young talent from South Korea to South Florida has invaded the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA), stealing the limelight from overtanned veterans with a splash of color, short skirts and high-flying ponytails. They've ditched the ice skates for their fathers' drivers, blasting pink balls over greens at Tiger Woods-size distances...
...Pressel and grand dame Annika Sorenstam, today's talent includes a 21-year-old blond, blue-eyed beauty who just won her second major (Brittany Lincicome); a young Mexican (Lorena Ochoa) on the verge of dethroning longtime No. 1 Sorenstam; a teen phenom, now 20, with a penchant for pink (Paula Creamer); a Japanese rock star trailed by a swarm of photographers (Ai Miyazato); and a swimsuit-calendar model with her own reality-TV show (Natalie Gulbis). "My decision to leave college and turn pro was one of the best decisions I've ever made," says Gulbis. "I'm living...