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...fascinating that it took Viagra for people to recognize the importance of contraceptive coverage to women," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. "The legislatures are realizing that if you cover Viagra, you have to give equal coverage to birth control." But Viagra may be having an even greater impact than on just the gender-equity front. The male "before" pill is helping bring the message to otherwise healthy people that drug costs in general are going up dramatically. "Most people pay for drugs out of pocket because they have no coverage for any drugs," says Gorman. Viagra has accordingly made...
...those who took Frankel?s spectacular alleged swindle ?- certainly a Great Train Robbery for the bull-crazy '90s ?- to heart as a stirringly outsize, outlaw pursuit-of-happiness story, this news must be viewed as a disappointment. To them, Frankel is no supervillain, just a failed stockbroker and all-around schlub who had clawed and cheated his way into the American Dream: a cavernous maximum-security mansion in tony Greenwich, Conn., complete with a fully functional securities trading floor; limos pulling up at all hours, dropping off leggy "receptionists" Frankel had met on the Internet. His stuffy neighbors ?- many...
...screen, Pickford was the prototype star. She had a stage mother who was her closest and only adviser (Mary faced the moneymen without an agent or manager). Though she never took director's credit, she supervised every aspect of production. When she founded United Artists with Fairbanks, Chaplin and D.W. Griffith, Pickford was the one with the canniest business sense. Later she had plastic surgery, three fraught marriages, a substance-abuse problem (alcohol) and two show-biz siblings, Jack and Lottie, with a talent for scandal. Instead of ensuring iconic immortality by dying young, Mary outlived her fame, ending...
...first my home PC couldn't read the disc. After a few tries, however, it started working. Go figure. Even more curious was that it took more than 20 minutes to install the program on my hard drive. When I used the original discs on a similar machine at work, it took less than five minutes. Why? It turns out that CD-RW discs use a less reflective material than CD-R discs, which makes them harder to read on older drives. Indeed, if your CD-ROM drive is more than a year old, it may not be able...
...millions like me who took part in the events at Beijing University's Triangle and Tiananmen Square can never forget them. It is true that the student and civilian demands were justifiable and that the government's harsh response was a terrible mistake. But we must see that China has changed and that the government is different in some respects. More important, China is freer, wealthier and more open. At this critical moment, with the spy scandal and the embassy bombing, Sino-American relations have dropped to their lowest point ever. To salvage the relationship, don't contain China, embrace...