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Hate shots? FluMist, a new alternative vaccine for the influenza viruses that send millions of Americans back to bed every winter, is administered as a nasal spray. Approved by the FDA in June for healthy people ages 5 through 49, it triggers a buildup of antibodies in the upper respiratory tract--flu's favorite point of entry. The catch: FluMist costs three to four times as much as the shot, and most health-insurance companies won't cover it. INVENTORS Hunein Maassab and MedImmune Vaccines AVAILABILITY Now, about $50 a dose TO LEARN MORE flumist.com...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: For Your Health | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...tour before Paris, five days and at least one allegedly shaky night in London. Now the rest of her jam-packed itinerary - showcases in Germany and Spain, a much-anticipated appearance in Scotland for the MTV Europe Music Awards - is about to go up like a puff of nasal spray. The singer will spend only one more day in Paris before abandoning the tour entirely and returning to the U.S. to convalesce at her mother's house in Kentwood, Louisiana, the sleepy backwater where Britney was born in 1981. Of course, from time to time everyone gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Eyes On Britney | 11/16/2003 | See Source »

...products--Rocky Graziano's spaghetti sauce, Mickey Mantle's barbecue sauce, Nolan Ryan's All-Star Fruit Snacks, Gloria Vanderbilt's salad dressing, Reggie Jackson's candy bar, Carl Yastrzemski's Big Yaz Bread, Diane von Furstenberg's facial tissue, Bill Blass's chocolates, Richard Simmons's Salad Spray, Tommy Lasorda's spaghetti sauce, Yves St. Laurent's cigarettes, Frank Sinatra's neckties--all examples of products these famous people promoted with unsatisfactory results. There's never been a real celebrity success in the food business. We estimate the total start-up loss for celebrity products somewhere close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Book Excerpt: Newman's Own Story | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...connected to them by wires; the others provide covering fire. Lately they have begun staging more elaborate, two-phase attacks that require up to a dozen men. In these missions, after mines are set off under convoys, hidden fighters launch rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at the stopped vehicles and spray them with machine-gun fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger Around Every Corner | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...that burns more efficiently or offers any other benefit. By IRS ruling, they need only modify the chemical composition of coal. As a result, dozens of plants have sprung up across America to carry out a process that in many cases is so slight that critics call it spray and pray, a reference to their hopes that no one will peek too closely. "You can't believe what goes on," a government official long involved with the coal industry told TIME, blaming Congress for its role in perpetuating the handout. "The people who spend the tax money don't have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Energy Scam | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

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