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...tour, FLW Outdoors--named after Forrest L. Wood, developer of the modern bass-fishing boat--also administers the free fantasy version at fantasyfishing.com The setup is simple. Before each of the six regular-season FLW tournaments (the first one starts Feb. 12 on Lake Guntersville in Huntsville, Ala.), players pick 10 anglers from the 155 pros who enter each tourney, in the order they believe the fishermen will finish. The better your picks do, the more points you rack up. And there's a hefty bonus for an exacta--if your pick for first or second or third, etc., matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Make $1 Million Fishing Online? | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...true power player in the full House Energy and Commerce Committee, chairman Henry Waxman of California, differs from Stupak one key point. Yes, he also supports a two-year DTC moratorium for new drugs. "Americans must face an inconvenient truth about drug safety," he says. "The truth is that we inevitably allow drugs on the market whose risks are not fully known." Waxman, however, insists that the FDA should have the discretion to make exceptions to the moratorium. This policy follows a recommendation that the Institute of Medicine offered in a 2006 report, "The Future of Drug Safety." "It doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Direct-to-Consumer Drug Ads Doomed? | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

Markopolos described the crooked returns as "the equivalent of Major League Baseball player batting .966 and no one suspecting a cheat." In the hearing, he used his arm to show the straight upward growth of Madoff's funds, up 45 degrees without any down ticks. "This was the first sign that this was a fraud," Markopolos said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Madoff Whistle-Blower Tells His Story | 2/4/2009 | See Source »

...young pilot was fatigued from a 17-hour workday, but he agreed to fly the rock star to his next gig because, hey, he would be flying Buddy Holly. The second show ended at midnight. The musicians packed up their instruments and finalized the flight arrangements. Holly's bass player, Waylon Jennings, was scheduled to fly on the plane but gave his seat to the Big Bopper, who was suffering from a cold. Holly's guitarist Tommy Allsup agreed to flip a coin with Richie Valens for the remaining seat. Valens won. The three musicians boarded the red and white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Day the Music Died | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

...talking about the Knowledge Generation Bureau, of course. The Knowledge Generation Bureau is a text-message-based information service that, for 50 cents a text, will answer any question you have as accurately as possible. The New York City-based company has been a major player in the directory assistance market for years; when you dial 411, chances are good that KGB will answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Answers for 50 Cents: Testing the New KGB | 2/3/2009 | See Source »

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