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...last time rental bowling shoes were hot was in the early '90s, the grunge era and the depths of the downsizing of America's corporations. Now, as the U.S. economy slides, lane operators from Phoenix to Milwaukee have been reporting thefts of up to 20 pairs a month. "You wonder: Where are their morals?" marvels one. They are popular in Japan, too, and we all know how that economy is doing. Fashion has contributed to the trend?Brad Pitt threw a bowling party for wife Jennifer Aniston in February?but the main accessory for most bowling shoe aficionados...
...Some wonder whether coziness with powerful people, combined with a jocular streak and a touch of intellectual arrogance, led Ibrahim into trouble, across so-called red lines set by Egypt's security establishment. Before his arrest, he liked to jet around to global conferences and sound off in the Western and Arab press. A friend recalls once recoiling when Mubarak arrived late for a meeting and Ibrahim demanded to know why he had kept them waiting. His first defense lawyer quit after Ibrahim detailed his detention in a public lecture dubbed, "How I Spent My Summer Vacation." "He has guts...
America's lovers are graying, and the publishing industry knows it. Naturally, since publishers rarely pass up a chance to win an audience, there is a current boomlet of sex books for midlifers, semi-seniors and seniors. With all the manuals already out there, you have to wonder how it is they still don't know what...
Last week gave Fowler even more reason to wonder. A state judge ordered a man named Jeffrey Pierce released after serving 15 years of a 65-year sentence for rape. Gilchrist placed him at the scene of the crime, but DNA evidence proved he was not the rapist. In response, Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating launched a review of every one of the thousands of cases Gilchrist touched between 1980 and 1993, starting with 12 in which death sentences were handed down. But in another 11 of her cases, the defendants have already been put to death. The state is giving...
...wonder drugs in today's medical arsenal, the heartburn treatment Prilosec has long been the most successful. The stomach soother reaped an astonishing $6.2 billion in sales last year to make it the best-selling prescription drug ever--a title Prilosec stands to lose when its patent expires in October. But if the drug's maker, British firm AstraZeneca, behaves like many of its counterparts in the industry, it won't easily relinquish its monopoly. Indeed, sources confirmed to TIME that the Federal Trade Commission has quietly launched an investigation into whether AstraZeneca illegally blocked generic competition to protect...