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...consider yourself warned. Now, if you're like me, you're thinking about ignoring the CPSC, but you're anxious about the consequences (I used to feel like a criminal when I put my baby to bed in a non-flame-retardant sleeper). I asked Ann Brown, chairwoman of the CPSC, if she thought the co-sleeping warning isn't just a touch overblown. Hoarse from defending the CPSC's position on co-sleeping, she said the "huge number of deaths meant it would be wrong for us to withhold this information from parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kids in the Bed | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...supplements were movies, SAMe would be the sleeper hit of the summer. Introduced in the U.S. in March, it is now the fourth most popular individual supplement in drugstore chains and general retail outlets. General Nutrition Centers reports that SAMe is surpassing even St. John's wort in sales. Two breathless guidebooks have already been published, and three more are coming in the fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is SAMe for Real? | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

DENNIS HASTERT Six G.O.P.ers defy wrestling coach turned Speaker on campaign finance. Use a sleeper hold, Denny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jun. 7, 1999 | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

Some nights, I wish my wife had an e-book, one of those battery-powered gadgets with high-resolution screens that can hold thousands of pages of best-selling text. I have always been a Princess and the Pea kind of sleeper. The slightest noise--even the sound of a page being turned--is enough to make me sit bolt upright, as if a torpedo had just slammed into the powder room. E-books are noiseless. Also, since they are backlit, your bedmate can read them in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E-Book Report | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...Well," Sleeper answered, "with activism, that's a risk you always have to take...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 1960s-Era Activist Counsels New Generation | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

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