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...Food. It's a toss-up (oops, wrong word) whether getting a meal is good or bad--but now even cross-country travelers can find themselves going hungry. First the airlines removed the flavor from chicken a la king, then they jettisoned the chicken altogether. Between 1992 and 1995 the airlines shaved $368 million off costs by cutting meal service, according to the Airport Transport Association. A few years ago, American found that removing a single olive per salad could save $100,000. "My wife and I bring our own food on board," says Martin Deutsch, editor at large...
PARIS: With the death of Pamela Harriman, the diplomatic post par excellence is a toss-up between Frank Wisner, the most senior member of the U.S. foreign service, and New York financier Felix Rohatyn. But only Monsieur Felix has the means and Lazard Freres connections to entertain in the grand style of the City of Light...
...toss out the chicken soup just yet, however. Researchers won't know for at least two years whether GS 4104 is safe and effective. They already know that it won't work on the common cold, which is what half of "flu" sufferers really have. Even at that, the compound works best during the first 48 hours of infection--before most people even begin experiencing those running noses and raging fevers. That is why the scientists at Gilead predict that it will be better at keeping you from getting your neighbor's flu than treating your...
...ORLEANS: Will the non-retired coach please sit down? Among the NFL coaching legends presiding over the pre-game coin toss stood Mike Ditka. Stately. Dignified. But not done yet. A subtle undercurrent to all the pomp and cheese-en-stance that was Super Bowl XXXI was the story of a career revived. And it wasn't aging funkmaster James Brown's. Ditka confirmed Monday that he will return to the sidelines next season as head coach of the New Orleans Saints. The perennially woeful Saints obviously hope they have landed the Coach Ditka of old, the Ditka...
...investors (and owner of the Portland Trail Blazers), back onto the Microsoft board. "We like to talk about how the fantasies we had as kids actually came true," Gates says. Now, facing their old classroom building at Lakeside is the modern brick Allen/Gates Science Center. (Gates lost the coin toss...