Word: stores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mike Giampaolo failed to convert a 19-yard field goal that, ultimately, would have made the difference. Having made it so close to going up by 14 and then coming away empty-handed, every Harvard fan in the stadium may have had an inkling that trouble was in store...
Feeling a little depressed? You could get a prescription for Prozac or try psychotherapy. But 7.5 million Americans in the past year have instead gulped down an extract made from a bright yellow flower called St. John's wort--available without a prescription at the health-food store in the mall or at the local Wal-Mart. Fear the onset of cold and flu season? You could get a flu shot. Or, like 7.3 million Americans, you could swallow a capsule made from echinacea, a purple-petaled daisy native to the Midwest. Worried that your memory is fading? Then write...
...other supplements seem particularly appealing. Consumers value them as preventive measures, as something distinct from potent pharmaceutical drugs that are prescribed only after disease strikes. "Doctors are getting more and more inaccessible," says Leda Jean Van Stedum, 45, a Denver secretary who was shopping in a Vitamin Cottage chain store for preparations of black cohosh and dong quai to head off premenstrual discomfort...
...jokes were chestnuts he no doubt hoarded from ABA conventions, but he effectively tailored them to the event. "What's the difference between a catfish and Ken Starr?" he asked. "One is a bottom-dwelling, scum-sucking scavenger. The other is just a fish." Later he told of a store where an ounce of lawyers' brains cost $75 and an ounce of journalists' brains cost $1 million. The clerk explained the discrepancy: "Do you know how many journalists we had to kill to get an ounce of brains?" Ginsburg had his needle...
Women will love FashionMall.com www.fashionmall.com) which carves its world up thus: Madison, Soho and Galleria. The choice for guys is more limited. The Gap's online store www.gap.com is still the easiest to navigate and the best for the basics--for kids and toddlers too. Note the free shipping through the holidays, probably to compensate for the fact that there's a Gap just around the corner...