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Medical science keeps finding new ways to extend our lives and to nip and tuck us so that we look better as we age. And publishers are rushing to share the fruits of those discoveries. A cascade of new medical books offers consumers the tools to take more control of their health. Here are four of the best...
...more disdainful of all things Gore, no one is intimidated by the prospect of what one Bush adviser calls "a campaign of Zip codes." Aides say it can't work, arguing that there's no way to narrowcast a message in a national campaign. "If he runs on gun control in New Jersey," says Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, "you can be sure the press will make an issue out of it in Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky and Missouri...
...women with water in the past too. "Why do you think so many guys were out there with video cameras?" asks Gordon Ludwig, an attorney representing one of the first men arrested. But this year, Ludwig says, "it was like a wet-T-shirt contest that got out of control...
...portrait created by these rumors and suspicions--North Korea's Dear Leader was unpredictable and goofy, and because he was thought to control a nuclear weapons program on one side of the world's most fortified border, he was dangerous. Fast forward to last week's summit in Pyongyang. When Kim Jong Il, still pudgy, and still wearing a poufy black hairdo, reached out with both hands to welcome South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, the makeover of the madman image was complete. The 58-year-old leader of the world's most mysterious country had been transformed into...
...celebrated its parade, and some angry that city residents don't realize that police shootings have actually declined in the '90s even as cops have managed to reduce crime. "The police department is in a catch-22 situation," says Patrick Lynch, president of the patrolmen's union. "If we control the problems out there, we get blamed for being aggressive. If we don't act fast, we get attacked. It's paralyzing." The paralysis may be part of the reason the murder rate has risen 12% this year after a modest increase last year as well. Still, there should...