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...commerce struggle has also produced plenty of grizzled, cynical veterans. Take Janice Crotty, a San Francisco Web consultant. In the space of a single year, she helped give birth to two online ventures--and watched both of them pass away. In early 1999 Crotty quit her job and went without pay for five months to found a Web portal called iAuthentic.com That failed to attract venture funding, so she joined health site wholepeople.com which, in turn, was recently rescued by, and merged with, rival site Gaiam.com...
...almost sounds too good to be true: Waltzing in and snapping up birth control pills from your local pharmacy's shelves - without going through the rigmarole of the gynecologist's appointment, the prescription drop-off and pickup, the calls for refills. Happily for American women, the Food and Drug Administration is considering making that fantasy a reality by allowing birth control pills and a few other prescription drugs available over the counter...
...well: Women would pay less for off-the-shelf pills. Of course, pharmaceutical companies would lose out, as would gynecologists, whose patients' visits would be dramatically curtailed. With opponents who pack a lobbying punch like those two do, it's not hard to see why previous attempts to make birth control pills more freely available might have hit a brick wall...
...late '50s, the pair began working with other writers and producing records for such artists as the Drifters and Ben E. King. Stoller recalls the creation of There Goes My Baby and the birth of soul. "I started playing a counterline on the piano that was like a Rimsky-Korsakov melody. Jerry said, 'That sounds like strings,' and I said, 'Why not? Let's do it.'" So came the first R.-and-B. record with strings. With Spanish Harlem, they added Brazilian and African percussion...
...history is a pastiche of fact, rumor and not a little romance. He was born, it is believed, in Siberia, while his father was being trained as a technocrat under Stalin. But his official biography transposes his birth to the slopes of Mount Paektu on the North Korean-Chinese border--for many, the mythical birthplace of the ancestor of the Korean people. Kim's mother died when he was a schoolboy. When the Korean War broke out during his father's rule, he was spirited off to the safety of Manchuria. In the 1960s Kim is believed to have trained...