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Kobe, don’t play right now. You’re injured. You’re feuding with Shaq to a level where it makes me uncomfortable just reading the transcripts of your latest outbursts. And based on statements you made a couple weeks ago to the tune of “every day is a miserable day,” I’m guessing something else might be on your mind...
...shot--before it's too late. Two years ago, when there was a shortage of flu vaccine, health officials asked people (except those in high-risk groups like the elderly and people with weak immune systems) to hold back. This year supply is plentiful, and they've changed their tune--urging just about everybody to get vaccinated. Not only will it cut down on the flu, but it will make it easier to spot cases of SARS should that flulike disease re-emerge...
...list of Top 40 hits that get saturation air play. Every year, 5,000 new albums pile up on endless racks in drugstores and supermarkets, there to await the ready purses of Mom and her affluent children. Last year, those purses responded to the galactic, 16-track, monster-smash tune of nearly $2 billion in records and tapes, making music, for the first measurable time in history, the most popular form of entertainment in America. --TIME...
...nearly $200 a year to fund the BBC, which adds up to a $4.5 billion annual subsidy. Americans would probably dump their sets in the Boston harbor if Washington forced them to spend that kind of money for PBS. But by and large, Brits love their Beeb; 93% tune in at least once a week. Audience satisfaction, which started at 6.4 (out of 10) when it was first measured in 2000, peaked at 7.1 this year...
Each spent a few minutes improvising a tune until the minute hand of the St. Paul’s clock reached the quarter hour...