Word: primed
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...ironic. Although network television loses viewers every year, ABC can still produce an audience of 18 million in a prime-time hour. Try to get that many visitors to your website in a day or a week. And cyberspace brands are not exempt from an old law of advertising that says share of mind leads to share of market. It's no wonder, then, that Web companies are widely dependent on the tube, as well as newspapers, magazines (thank you very much), radio and billboards, to imprint their brand names on as many brains as possible--particularly consumers who aren...
...have become a convert. Carbohydrates in the amount we commonly consume them (particularly sugar and other refined carbos) are often prime saboteurs of our weight. What's more, cutting back on them--especially on wheat--seems to produce improvements in energy, mood and sleep for many patients. It is hard to do--our culture is carbo- and wheat-driven. But of all the diets I've seen over the past few decades, the moderate-fat, lower-carbohydrate ones are the most successful. They stress not how much food you eat but what kinds. Calorie counting is not as important...
DIED. JACK LYNCH, 82, former Irish Prime Minister who chose not to send troops to protect Catholics in Northern Ireland as violence erupted in 1969; in Dublin. He began the tension easing between north and south that led to 1998's peace agreement...
Both sides keep a wary eye on the other's construction efforts, and a massive outbreak of violence followed an Israel decision to open a new access tunnel in September 1996. But despite Jewish objections, the Labor government of newly elected prime minister Ehud Barak could see the logic of adding additional exits and worshiping space in a mosque that draws tens of thousands of Muslims to prayer. More important, Barak deemed any attempt to stop the construction as likely to inflame tensions at a point when the city least needs them. The Temple Mount "is the most sensitive place...
...Chechnya is boosting new prime minister Vladimir Putin's domestic political standing, but foreign governments are less impressed. Russian forces Friday continued to pound Chechen villages -- for the benefit of a live TV audience for the first time in Russian history - and Western journalists reported that some 50 refugees had been killed in a Russian rocket attack on a convoy heading for the border. But U.N. moves to send a humanitarian team to assess the needs of refugees from the conflict, and President Clinton's exhortation to the two sides to "stop fighting and start talking," signaled that Moscow...