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Noting their opposing backgrounds, Marilyn I. Cohen, director of a clinic providing abortions, and Karen Swallow Prior, a high school principal and longtime sidewalk counselor with Operation Rescue, said that if they could find areas of agreement on this issue then other people should be able to as well...
...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 down this name: ginkgo biloba. It's made from the fan-shaped leaf of a tree found from China to South Carolina, and 10.8 million Americans regularly remind themselves...
Trouble was, it was a difficult line to swallow. Gates as a fuzzy-headed amnesiac? This is the man revered even by the geniuses who roam Microsoft's Redmond, Wash., campus for his awesome "bandwidth" (geekspeak for intelligence). Gates' memory is so capacious that at age 11, he astounded friends and family by memorizing all 107 verses of the Sermon on the Mount. He's so driven and detail oriented that he favors baths over showers so he can study while he soaks. Besides, it's hard to imagine the lackadaisical Gates of the video taking Microsoft from three employees...
Rapper Vanilla Ice is touring with his new thrash-metal album, Swallow This...
...share." Why not? Because some breakthrough innovation could turn this fast-moving industry upside-down in a heartbeat, or so the theory goes. But in the tradition-bound setting of a courtroom, such Clintonesque semantics--"It depends on what you mean by monopoly"--may be a tough act to swallow. David Boies, the Justice Department's chief counsel and a veteran of the old IBM antitrust suit, told TIME last week that he intends to ask everyone who testifies to stake his or her credibility on whether Windows constitutes a monopoly. "I doubt even [Microsoft's] witnesses will be able...