Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kaiser report. And a third of kids ages two to seven have TVs in their room. That's way too many kids spending way too much time alone in their bedroom with only Kermit the Frog and the offspring of Aaron Spelling to keep them company. So the first thing parents should do is take the TV out of a kid's room. Like computers, televisions should be where parents can at least tell if they are being used. Even those parents who choose not to monitor their kids' viewing (half the parents surveyed had no rules about TV) should...
Whew! Any incoming? Taking on Lynch and Buffett at their own game is perilous sport. They're the nearest thing to omniscience Wall Street has to offer. But I've been thinking a lot about both men's no-tech dogma since last spring. That's when Buffett told thousands at Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting cum Buffettfest that he won't buy tech stocks because he doesn't know how to value them, and Lynch glibly confessed to thousands more at a fund-industry conference that he doesn't know how to turn on a computer. Lynch's point...
...stole it. I don't have it. She was looking through the wardrobe, and she spotted that thing and said, "What's that?" And someone said, "That's Jack Lemmon's." And she said...
...Senate, of course, is not completely lacking in opportunities for petty vindictiveness on the schoolyard level. In fact, Jesse Helms has carved out a specialty in just that sort of thing, the way some other Senators have made themselves masters of farm policy or defense appropriations. But the arsenal of retaliatory weapons is rather thin. Expecting Giuliani to operate in the Senate, some New Yorkers think, is like asking a saloon brawler to conduct his business in a place that lacks both barstools and pool cues...
GERD THYSELF An upset stomach may not be the only thing to worry about when taking aspirin or ibuprofen. The so-called nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories may be linked to a severe form of heartburn called gastroesophageal-reflux disorder, or GERD. Researchers found that the chances of getting GERD doubled among 12,500 Medicaid patients who took the painkillers routinely. Before starting a regimen of aspirin or the like, check with your doctor...