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Cipro was just another antibiotic used mostly for treating stubborn infections when it was catapulted to pharmaceutical stardom by the anthrax attacks. Cipro, it turned out, was the only antibiotic specifically approved by the FDA to treat anthrax, and suddenly it was the hottest drug in town. Doctors were besieged by patients demanding prescriptions "just in case," and pharmacies, particularly in New York, Washington and Florida, couldn't keep up. Other antibiotics, including doxycycline and that old standby penicillin, are just as effective against the particular strain that was showing up in tainted letters, and a few weeks later, when...
Popular wisdom has it that Gwen Stefani’s painful breakup with fellow No Doubter Tony Kanal was the ultimate cause of No Doubt’s rise to stardom. Previous albums Tragic Kingdom and Return of Saturn were propelled by angsty tracks like “Don’t Speak,” “Ex Girlfriend” and “Simple Kind of Life,” inspired by Stefani’s heartache. But with steady beau Gavin Rossdale and a chummy relationship with Kanal, Stefani seems to be doing just fine...
Popular wisdom has it that Gwen Stefani’s painful breakup with fellow No Doubter Tony Kanal was the ultimate cause of No Doubt’s rise to stardom. Previous albums Tragic Kingdom and Return of Saturn were propelled by angsty tracks like “Don’t Speak,” “Ex Girlfriend” and “Simple Kind of Life,” inspired by Stefani’s heartache. But with steady beau Gavin Rossdale and a chummy relationship with Kanal, Stefani seems to be doing just fine...
...JENNIFER CAPRIATI. A decade after teenage stardom and seven years after her arrested adolescence got her cited for shoplifting and busted for marijuana possession, a disciplined, fit Capriati smashed her way back to the top. She began the year with a stunning upset in the Australian Open and a few months later took the French Open. She also reached the semis at Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in a year when women's tennis outshone the men's game in straight sets...
DIED. ASHOK KUMAR, 90, Indian actor who appeared in some 250 films over 60 years; in Bombay. A law school graduate, Kumar rose to stardom in the megahit Achhut Kanya (1936) playing a young Brahmin who falls in love with a low-caste woman...