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...improve their sex lives. "Without it, you may soon have no sex life at all," contends Dr. Lila Nachtigall, co-author of the popular handbook Estrogen: The Facts Can Change Your Life! (HarperCollins; $11). The natural waning of estrogen in the middle years often brings physical changes that can ruin a woman's pleasure in sex. The vagina basically reverts to its prepubescent shape: narrower, shorter, dryer, less elastic, with thin walls that tear easily and are prone to infection. The libido may also dry up, if only because sex becomes painful. While many women are spared these problems...
Things work under monopolies. Remember how great the telephone system functioned when AT&T was the phone company? Competition threatens to ruin technology for all of us. Too many companies manufacture software and hardware, and none of it works together. Only the losers want to set new standards. Microsoft operating systems already run 80% of the desktop computers in the world. Why should Gates agree to someone else's standards...
...Birthday," though just as loved and well-known, unfolds in the more real, though admittedly grotesque world of a work-a-day dentist (the eponymous Bob) who lusts after his butt-scratching, pesticide spraying assistant and helps ruin (if inadvertantly) his own party. Bob's penchant for poetry, pastels and pathetic pronouncements--"Hardly anyone flosses anymore, what's the points?--keeps his "Birthday" very much unlike any kind of morality play on again and marriage, which instead it chooses to spoof...
...sudden, the rags-to-riches Green was undefeated and No. 2 in the country. A loss to Penn State would ruin the perfect record, but in the Ivy League Dartmouth was still at the top. The only thing it needed to win its first outright title since--yep, 1986--was a victory over Harvard...
...highlands, but sensitive tribal men vanquish all boundaries. Bekilted and long-haired, Neeson is only concerned with his honor and his woman. Embarrassing petal-strewn love scenes are only a little worse than Rob Roy's lifeless professions of integrity and honor. Neeson's pallid presence does more to ruin the film than anything else...