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...works - ones much more direct and widely broadcast than TiVo's too-clever-by-half "male itch" ads. But Ultimate TV is still in its buggy and relatively featureless infancy; as with all Microsoft products, it's best to wait for version 2.0. So if the ads feed a need but discerning consumers try out both systems when they actually get to the store, TiVo wins. Right...
BREAST VS. BOTTLE If knowing that it wards off infection and allergies still hasn't persuaded mothers to breast-feed their newborns, maybe this will. A study of 15,000 children ages 9 through 14 shows that those who were breast-fed are 20% less likely to be overweight than those who were formula-fed. That's welcome news indeed, since overweight youngsters tend to grow up into overweight adults...
...experience in Nagano is an instructive parable for the rest of Japan, and in particular, for rebel Prime Minister Koizumi. Can Tanaka show the way in Nagano? Or will he prove to be a flash in the pan, a trifling, inconsequential political buffoon? Sure, he is clever enough to feed the public what it wants to hear. In Nagano, they'd had their fill of pricey public-works projects, so they applauded Tanaka's decision to stop the building of dams...
...cats bring offerings to us, neatly severed red squirrel tails that they lay ceremonially outside the kitchen door where we feed them. The cats leave the tails for us like tips for the waiter. My wife assembled a collection of a half dozen red squirrel tails, laid out in a row on a shelf in her office. But in the middle of the night, the mice came into the office and carried every one of the tails away...
...since 1996, Kentucky and Maryland have since allowed for re-investment. Still, Rhea Chiles, wife of the late Florida Governor Lawton Chiles, who led the divestment drive, noted that "if the decision to invest in tobacco is simply one of dollars and cents, why in the world would [we] feed the demon that will cost our taxpayers hundreds of millions in future health care costs...