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DIED. CORY ERVING, 19, son of basketball legend Julius ("Dr. J") Erving; in Sanford, Fla. Missing since May 28, he was found in his car at the bottom of a pond less than a mile from home. The cause of death was not immediately determined...
...same road trip that took Scruggs to the meeting of Connecticut doctors, he dropped in on a Washington law firm to address a less-friendly group: lawyers who represent insurance companies and HMOs. He came to tell them it was in their clients' interest to settle. "One of these days, one of the industry's lawyers in court someplace like Jefferson County, Miss., is going to call headquarters and say, 'This jury just returned a $1 billion verdict,'" Scruggs said. "Just think what that will do to the company's stock...
...disturbs us. (Who, outside the Christian right, cares anymore about anyone's sexual orientation?) What's upsetting about the movie is its refusal to judge Buck's intrusiveness. Sometimes it seems to think it's funny; all the time it begs us to sympathize with it. But obsession, no less than the cell phone or the unerasability of our Internet wanderings, is a threat to our privacy, possibly our lives. Any movie, especially one as crude and inept as this one, that refuses to acknowledge that fact is dishonest--sort of a Scream IV without that series' exemplary scariness...
...burlier opponent. "But he said, 'Don't worry, Mom. He does the same thing every time. I know what I need to do,'" she recalls. After losing the first few points, Sam figured out how to adjust his game to win. As well as a confidence booster for the less brawny kids or those disinclined to team sports, it can be a healthy way to let off steam. "It's a combat sport, but fast moving like a video game," says Michael Marx, a coach at New York's Rochester Fencing Center--home of three out of four women...
...theory that has always been at the core of all Republican tax-cut proposals--if rich people pay less in taxes, we'd all be better off--may actually make sense when applied to head lice, which like to jump from head to head, irrespective of the head's economic circumstances. Passing along lice, after all, works on more or less the same principle as trickle-down economics, but it's more certain...