Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final test draft) of its Internet Explorer 5.0. Normally, I wouldn't review beta software in this column since prerelease code can be buggy and raw. (IE 5 is supposed to be commercially released by March.) But I believe that this beta is stable enough--and interesting enough--to recommend to anyone who's comfortable around a PC. Note that comfortable means you've been a Web user for a while and don't require any Microsoft support...
...their windowseat wearing slippers and heather-grey leggings while blinking into the snowflakes. Better synthetic picks include The Manaheim Steamroller Christmas Album, and A Fresh Aire Christmas-from the guys who invented New Age and are the wellspring of all Christmas muzak. Polyester blends are out, though, and we recommend a return to your roots with John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together. Beats Windham Hill...
...post office, but cookies travel pretty darn well, even third class. Wrapped in wax paper and fresh from the freezer to the mail counter, quality morsels can travel sea to shining sea without too much damage to their taste. (There can be a pulverizing effect, however, so I recommend a sturdy shoebox.) Only your smile might give away the nature of the treasured contents when you go to claim them. And so the remedy to college food ho-hums may be closer then the next family holiday meal: prepare to enjoy the taste of home on your very own futon...
...flaw with the mutual exclusivity argument lies in intent. Guccis do not and cannot enter a corporate job with the intent of bettering the lives of others. As a result, if efficiency called for layoffs, Guccis must recommend that path. In this sense, social justice and corporate employment may not be mutually exclusive like oil and water, but it is not complementary like peanut butter and jelly...
...drop, you've practiced herbal medicine. These remedies are so much a part of our daily routine that no one thinks them flaky. Nor do most doctors mind that you use them--as long as you don't overdo it. So why are so many U.S. physicians reluctant to recommend herbal supplements? Is it just a matter of ignorance and provincialism...