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...comment that Gates spent over $100 million to help save Apple due to simply his "good intentions" is ludicrous. The move was one of Gates' most clever. By helping to stave off the demise of Apple, Gates was preserving a market that generates each year many times more for Microsoft than what he paid. And has anyone noticed that Macs no longer ship with Netscape Navigator? That's right, the cheery Microsoft Internet Explorer icon is now the path to the Web for Mac users--many of whom bought Macs out of their hatred for Microsoft...
...University of Wisconsin at Madison and author of Vitamania: Vitamins in American Culture. In 1989 the recommended dietary allowance for folic acid was cut from 400 micrograms for all adults to 200 micrograms for men and 180 micrograms for women, because that was the lowest amount that would stave off a nutritional deficiency. At the same time, however, new studies were showing that higher doses of folic acid could prevent crippling birth defects during pregnancy and ward off strokes and heart attacks in older adults. "The recommended levels came down," Apple notes, "just as the evidence for taking higher doses...
During surgery, bloodless practitioners often do everything they can to stave off any blood loss that might require a transfusion. Among the techniques: cryosurgery to freeze tissue to be removed, or use of a harmonic scalpel, a vibrating laser that simultaneously cuts tissue and clots blood. Brain surgeons treating tumors and repairing blood-vessel malformations are also using a state-of-the-art gamma "knife" that delivers a high dose of radiation to precise points in the head through tiny holes in a helmet that resembles a salon hair dryer...
Brian Goodman, 20, is obsessed with the idea that disaster and death are about to strike his family. The only way to stave off catastrophe, his mind tells him, is to follow self-imposed rituals to the absolute letter: making coffee in a way that never varies, driving around Los Angeles along the same route every day. A classic victim of obsessive-compulsive disorder, Goodman has been in treatment since he was seven, without much change. Now he is on Zoloft. "Before the medicine," he says, "it was like living in hell...
...BONE UP For the first time, a study shows that older men, like women, can stave off bone loss--and even increase bone mass--with calcium and vitamin D supplements. Just 500 mg of calcium and 700 IUs of vitamin D a day seem to do the trick...