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After a decade of grim headlines about spiraling hospital bills and shifty HMOs, the boom in self-medication comes as no surprise. "People are fed up with the high costs and side effects of drugs," says Earl Mindell, a registered pharmacist and author of Secret Remedies (Simon & Schuster, 1997), a new study of the self-care movement. "We're doubling our knowledge about nutrition every 18 months. So people wonder, instead of treating the symptoms as we've always been taught, why not help your body fight off the problem in the first place...
...What television did to American young families is, it stopped them to read," he says in his broken second tongue. "It took the books out of kids' hands. I think we can make kids curious and get them to read again. I know I'm right because after Gulliver Simon & Schuster said the books were selling like crazy...
...another twinbill. Harvard can clinch the division title outright with a split or better. Should the Crimson lose both games, however, it will play Yale in a one-game playoff to determine the division-winner: 25 wins marks Harvard's highest total since it tallied 29 victories in 1985. Simon pitched a complete game in the opener, yielding all of the Crimson's 18 runs and 17 hits. Joe O'Donnell '67, a former baseball and football letter-winner, threw out the first pitch after the field was given his name in a pre-game ceremony. Dartmouth 3 Harvard...
...asked Halmi, the chairman of Hallmark Entertainment, to come up with something about "what the year 2000 means." A tough question, so Halmi has passed the buck to 10 of America's leading playwrights--John Guare, Larry Gelbart, David Mamet, Steve Martin, Elaine May, Terrence McNally, Arthur Miller, Neil Simon, Wendy Wasserstein and August Wilson--each of whom will contribute a teleplay about the millennium that will be broadcast during a single week of the November 1999 sweeps...
Keller's book, Comfort Woman (Viking; 213 pages; $21.95), is one of a trio of powerful debut novels by Asian-American women to arrive in bookstores lately. The others: Monkey King (HarperCollins; 310 pages; $24) by Patricia Chao (of Chinese and Japanese descent) and The Necessary Hunger (Simon & Schuster; 365 pages; $23) by Nina Revoyr (whose mother and father are Japanese and Polish-American, respectively). Although these books share some themes--all of them deal with parents and children in conflict over such issues as cultural and sexual identity--each author has a sharp, specific vision...