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...record flight delays, biztravel.com began compensating customers for jet lag on six airlines. The payout policy--$100 for 30-min. delays, $200 for an hour and a full refund after two--boosted sales 50%. But playing airline roulette has cost the site $1.7 million since May, so Biztravel recently shrank tardiness refunds 75%. (A $100 max is better than nothing.) Another plus? Automatic rebooking on cheaper flights so you can pocket the difference...
...paraphrase the Supremes, where does the love go? After tabloidy squabbles, Spice Girls went from a quintet to a quartet and lost their audience; En Vogue shrank from a quartet to a trio and went out of style. It's tough for any group of divas to stay on top--they're often in 3-in. heels, after all--and just a few months ago, Destiny's Child, an R.-and-B. quartet that's now a trio, seemed to be tottering. But late last year, its single, Independent Women Part I, went to No. 1. And last week...
...plaque regression." Some of the most striking evidence comes from studies of a vaccine against beta amyloid that Schenk and his co-workers at Elan have developed. In 1999 they administered their vaccine to mice whose brains were filled with plaques. A short time later, the plaques shrank. Currently the Elan vaccine, like the Bristol-Myers' secretase inhibitor, is in early-phase clinical trials, in which the primary objective is to test for safety as opposed to effectiveness...
...more votes were tallied in Florida, Bush's lead shrank to several hundred votes, leaving the election too close to call...
...more months of life. By adding the drug irinotecan to the standard treatment of fluorouracil and leucovorin, researchers increased patients' survival time from 13 to 15 months, afforded them seven months (up from four) of progression-free disease and nearly doubled the percentage of patients whose tumors shrank...