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...fever pitch last November when Chuck Shramek, an amateur astronomer based in Houston, Texas, announced on a nationwide radio talk show that he had photographed a "Saturn-like object" that seemed to be following in Hale-Bopp's wake. Shramek's breathless claim elevated Hale-Bopp fantasies from supermarket tabloids to the mainstream press and generated thousands of posts to message boards and astronomy home pages on the Internet. One fast-spreading rumor had it that the object was an alien spacecraft four times the size of Earth...
...resumes. Perhaps divulging anything more intimate would be a bad career move. Maybe sharing an emotion or two might jeopardize our chances at becoming president or winning a Nobel or Pulitzer. After all, having anything beyond our curricula vitae renders us vulnerable. But vulnerable to what? Will the supermarket tabloids really lambaste us for disclosing to a study partner how our day was? Are we honestly so important that we must protect our egos at the expense of that which makes us human...
...tapped again. During his trip last week to the Los Angeles meeting of the big-spending afl-cio, where he promised new rules requiring all businesses that contract with the Federal Government to meet fair-labor standards, Gore made time for private chats with two significant Democratic Party supporters: supermarket mogul Ronald Burkle and real estate investor Stanley Hirsh. "It's breathtaking how fast and aggressively he's moving," says a Democratic stalwart. Though Gore's aides insist he wasn't asking for donations on this visit, they admit he was laying the basis for a squeeze this year...
...Mitch McConnell is on his way to burying campaign-finance reform with his silver tongue, I realized while approaching the supermarket dairy counter one day, buying yogurt was only bolstering his argument. So I'm off yogurt. Maybe if everyone quits buying yogurt, we'll have campaign-finance reform...
...Corp. announced plans to purchase competitor Revco in a $2.8 billion deal that will make CVS the nation's biggest drug store chain. The move is another in a growing series of consolidations as traditional, large-scale drugstore companies try to combat fierce price and product competition from supermarket and mail-order pharmacies. Revco, which has more stores but smaller revenues than CVS, had planned a similar deal last spring with competitor Rite Aid, but the Federal Trade Commission blocked the acquisition over antitrust concerns. The FTC has not yet approved the CVS-Revco deal, but antitrust worries have already...