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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It's also a good idea to ask your doctor to write out both the generic and brand names of your prescription. Find out from him or her what condition the drug is supposed to treat, how to take it and what possible side effects you might expect. Then, as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixed-Up Meds | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Even a hard-core pessimist must agree that things are looking up when the most immediate worry at the end of the 20th century is that computers won't know what time it is just after midnight, Dec. 31. Or that the threat of a genuine apocalypse has been downgraded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plague of the Century | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

Those familiar with previous accounts of the 1918 contagion (Richard Collier's The Plague of the Spanish Lady or Alfred Crosby's America's Forgotten Pandemic) may be surprised to learn that science has yet to discover what made that particular flu virus so deadly. Though no longer a threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Plague of the Century | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

That request left Mann "beyond not interested." To get out of her contract, she had to buy back her own master tapes. "I had had it," she explains. "Now I understand what Prince went though. I was ready to cheerfully quit the business forever." Fortunately, this is when Paul Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sweet Sound of Magnolia | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

John Irving's rural sprawl of a novel becomes, in his screenplay, a small epic with subtle strengths. The setting is harsh--a Maine orphanage in the early '40s, with war and sexual abuse looming--but the mood is warm and precise, as a flinty, laudanum-addicted doctor (the excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Cider House Rules | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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