Word: sickingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bomb of a joke. See, Thomas Harris is a clever guy. He has no designs on being a literary superstar--a John Grisham, a Jackie Collins, a Stephen King--who churns out crap every year to please his publishers and loyal audience. Harris, for all we know, is sick to death of these characters that have pigeon-holed...
QUESTION 6: You've almost hit the big time! But internal dissension is tearing your company apart. Specifically, your employees are sick of working for free. How do keep morale up without actually paying wages? A) Promise to distribute even more non-existent stock options; B) Give them all a business cards and a "Chief (blank) Officer" title; C) Beer; D) Screw it. Dump those deadweights and poster the campus, advertising your new "comp...
...mystically minded Jarrett suspects there was more to his latest CD than the right piano at the right time. "There was something deep going on," he says matter-of-factly, and he might be onto something. Sometimes a great artist does everything right and nothing happens; sometimes a sick man sits down carefully at the piano and suddenly finds himself 10 ft. off the ground. The trick, as Jarrett says, and the pleasure for listeners to this recording, is to be ready for anything, even a little miracle...
...plenty to fight it with. The FDA last week approved Tamiflu, the second major flu drug to be endorsed in months. The flu-fighting inhalant Relenza got the agency's nod this summer. Unlike Relenza, Tamiflu comes in capsule form. Taken within a couple of days of getting sick, Tamiflu can cut the duration of flu symptoms by about 1 1/2 days and slice in half the risk of complications such as bronchitis and sinusitis. What's more, a new study finds that taken for six weeks before any symptoms, Tamiflu may help prevent flu in the first place. Still...
...that unfortunate? After all, these fuels provide nearly 80% of the energy humans use to keep warm, to light buildings and run computers, to power the cars that get us around, the tractors that plant food, the hospitals that serve our sick. If these fuels were to vanish tomorrow, worldwide chaos would follow and humans would die in the hundreds of millions...