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...week before switching from the hypertension drug Posicor--a calcium-channel blocker recalled earlier this month--to an alternative blocker, a new report cautions. Four patients have gone into shock--one died--after changing within 24 hours from Posicor to another drug. The quick switch caused blood pressure to plummet to dangerously low levels...
Queen attributed the plummet to a shaky economy in Asia. In Korea, for instance the dropoff was particularly sharp--from 137 students last year to 30 this year, he said...
...still a philanthropic presence, donating some $750 million a year to charities. But its 2.1 million national membership, notes Richard Fletcher of the Masonic Information Center in Silver Spring, Md., is "the lowest it's been in some time." By which he means since around 1888. And it will plummet further, since the average brother is pushing 70. To baby boomers the Masons are a fusty memory. To the boomers' children, well, it's a philosophical conundrum: if a million-member secret society dies quietly, does anybody notice--or care...
...yearly subscription. Kinsley, the former New Republic editor (and current TIME essayist), reports that 17,000 subscribers had signed up by midweek, a big falloff in audience but a necessary step, he argues, if the Webzine is to be a self-sustaining business. "Readership is going to plummet at first," Kinsley admits. "But you have to bite the bullet...
...Microsoft has "done almost everything they can think of to put us out of business," Barksdale told the Senators. He should know: Netscape's browser was unrivaled after its launch in 1994. But pressured by Microsoft, which was giving a virtually identical product away, Netscape saw its market share plummet. Now the company gives away not just its software but the underlying source code as well...