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...option. Whatever you choose, make sure there's plenty of it: in the words of one road hog, "If we ate as much at home as we eat on vacation, we'd all weigh 500 lbs." And don't forget the snacks, in the car or on the plane: string cheese, dried fruit, cookies and crackers, fruit snacks, carrot and celery sticks, granola bars, trail mix and lots of juice and bottled water. If you're sick of hearing "Hey, she got more than me!," give each child a day's worth of rations in the morning. Says Brian Beihl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Family Travel: Are We There Yet? | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...This is the latest in a string of discoveries that indicate you can create chemicals that can act like estrogen in some parts of the body and as anti-estrogens in other parts of the body," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. In the latest study, for example, the researchers found that raloxifene fits into the body?s estrogen receptors in such a way as to both increase bone density and block breast cancer. There are apparent side effects to raloxifene, however, such as an increased risk of blood clots. And there are also side effects to the other well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drug's Breast-Cancer Benefits Make a Two-for-One Value | 6/15/1999 | See Source »

History is often portrayed as a string of arias in a grand opera, all baritone intrigues and tenor heroics. Some of the most tumultuous events, however, have been provoked by serendipity--the assassination of an inconsequential archduke spawned World War I, a kicked-over lantern may have sparked the Great Chicago Fire. One cannot help wondering what role Martin Luther King Jr. would have played in the civil rights movement if the opportunity had not presented itself that first evening of the boycott--if Rosa Parks had chosen a row farther back from the outset, or if she had missed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Torchbearer ROSA PARKS | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...muscles and one named Peaches. In his boyhood he was ever the prankster and the practical joker. His idea of fun was to frighten his parents--putting a sheet over his head and jumping out at them from a closet, or tying a string to a bedroom curtain and making it move after his parents had gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUHAMMAD ALI: The Greatest | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...year's end, the title seemed an afterthought, and Harvard had struggled to remain at .500 while battling a bizarre string of injuries and illnesses. The gap left by Feaster proved too large to fill in just one season, and the Crimson finished with an overall record of 10-15 and an Ivy mark...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Basketball Rebuilds and Reloads | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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