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...installment of Innovators, our monthly series on 100 people with breakthrough ideas. It was quite a departure for Phil's reporters and writers to venture into the realm of alternative medicine, where hopes proliferate and proof is often sketchy. Yet the field is booming because millions of Americans swear these therapies have given them relief where conventional medicine has failed them. Indeed, our skeptical journalists found six pioneers, in therapies ranging from guided imagery to visceral manipulation, who really seem to be on to something. "I was surprised," says senior writer Mike Lemonick, "at how long a record of success...
When hundreds of fans take to the Internet and radio hot lines daily to swear they glimpsed you dancing in a nightclub or slipping out of a recording studio--five years after you were laid to rest--it's a sure sign something special is going on. So it goes with the firebrand rapper Tupac Shakur, whose celebrity has swelled into a mystique of near Elvis-like intensity since his death in a Las Vegas drive-by in 1996 at age 25. Shakur was an electrifying rapper whose flashes of gangsta bravado (like the petulant song Hit 'Em Up) were...
...howls of yesterday (actually, most good Democrats are still howling, or else preserve the election of 2000 in their hearts in the way a Croatian grandmother may cherish the bloody shirt in which her husband was stabbed by a Serb, in order to show it to her grandchildren and swear them to revenge) - I bring up these howls not to disturb the dead horse of that election, but to make a different point...
What didn't kill them only made them stronger. The Ravens swear by Dilfer's leadership and sense of team, which is no doubt a product of no longer having the pressure of being an expected savior. The Giants can't help but be inspired by Collins, who, in the NFC Championship game against the Vikings, cashed in on a game plan that relied on him to carve through Minnesota's Swiss cheese secondary. He turned in one of the most magnificent performances in NFL playoff history by halftime...
When he started to get sicker this fall, he'd swear angrily at me if I asked...