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...Suicide has a lot more to do with emotional problems than physical health," Yen says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Drinking May Reduce Suicide Risk | 3/15/1996 | See Source »

...think it's one study and the side effects and disadvantages of having so much caffeine outweigh the [advantages]," says Lucy Yen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coffee Drinking May Reduce Suicide Risk | 3/15/1996 | See Source »

Instead, he bought about 13% of QVC, the cable-TV retailer that is the Home Shopping Network's prime competitor. But he hadn't quite shaken his yen for upscale properties and in short order was using QVC to launch the exhaustively chronicled bidding war for Paramount that he lost to Viacom's Sumner Redstone. By the summer of 1994, Diller was describing a projected takeover of CBS as his "destiny." But Comcast, a cable company that owned a 15.5% stake in QVC, squelched the deal and then tendered its own offer to buy out Diller's share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DILLER DOING IT HIS WAY | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Japan's substantial trade surplus with the U.S. fell 17%, its first drop in five years. Many analysts expect the decline to continue, as Japan moves more manufacturing offshore and the high yen encourages imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: JANUARY 21-27 | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...culture of Long Island mall-rats gone astray, Although initially engaging, the mutant-weirdo world of "Lick of Fury" eventually plays like a simple stream of sight gags or even private jokes. And "Dienstag, Once Upon a Tuesday" which tracks an adolescent serial killer who succombs to a weekly yen, pulls all the strings of the horror genre so many times and with such a stark sense of its own irony, that (aside from one truly upsetting image) it really is mostly laughable...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: Short & NASTY underground | 10/26/1995 | See Source »

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