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...medical school has been very quiet about the whole thing," said one 7-year maintenance employee. "It leaves a sour taste in your mouth...
...boba drinks are all about. They're a concoction of either tea or juice combined with milk, fruit syrup, ice and--the surprise--small marbles of tapioca. More than one person has likened drinking boba to finding a Gummi Bear in your smoothie. But these drinks, in flavors like sour plum and kumquat-lemon and sipped through an extra-wide straw, are the latest fad beverage on the West Coast...
...began in Kenya and England. The FDA approved a new anti-HIV drug. And leaders of developing nations, in which 95% of AIDS cases occur, pledged more funding to fight the economic and social devastation caused by the disease. But South African President Thabo Mbeki sounded a sour note when he openly questioned whether HIV causes AIDS. That prompted more than 5,000 scientists to sign a declaration decrying the waste of valuable time and resources arguing over a well-established scientific fact. Mbeki reportedly remains unconvinced but has stopped talking about it publicly...
...December 1999, the sweet harmonies had turned sour. Luckett and Roberson delivered letters to Knowles "disaffirming" him as their manager and filed a suit charging that his "greed, insistence on control, self-dealing and promotion of his daughter's interests at the expense of Plaintiffs, became the dominant forces in Destiny's Child." Knowles, who disputes the charges, says Luckett's and Roberson's roles in Destiny's Child were "imaging more so than talent." He replaced them with Farrah Franklin and Michelle Williams. Luckett and Roberson's lawyer, Randy Bowman, defends them: "My clients' talent has been validated...
Bush's bearishness may also reflect the influence of his chief economic adviser Larry Lindsey. The former Federal Reserve governor has been sour for so long on the economy's prospects that he cashed out all his stocks in 1997, when the Dow Jones average was still at 8,500. And for Lindsey, a dedicated supply sider, the remedy for recession just happens to be a tax cut. Most economists insist, however, that tax cuts have very little effect on recessions, largely because their benefits kick in too late to affect the problem. To pre-empt his critics, Bush could...