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...time when more and more advertising dollars are spent on cable. Says Ira Shepard, a lawyer negotiating for the advertisers, "There is no industry in this country, if not the world, that can, in the year 2000, survive on concepts and rules that fit technology in the 1950 and 1960s, and the TV advertising industry is no different...
...most challenging reform may be to get patients to become their own advocates for better death. That would require frank talk about a somber subject. That's not an entirely unreasonable expectation, reformers contend. They point out that Americans successfully changed birth in the 1960s and '70s by getting fathers more involved and focusing more on mothers' well-being. Byock believes that the boomers, who demanded many of the changes in the way we come into the world, will be equally insistent on changing the way we leave. "The baby boomers are the most self-centered, arrogant, willing...
...oeuvre that has in turn attracted its own audience. On Our Own Terms is only the latest in a series of Moyers' PBS documentaries that speak directly to the 77 million-strong baby-boom generation, which has been dictating the national agenda since coming of age in the 1960s. As wise and benevolent Uncle Bill and Aunt Judith, the Moyerses are reaching boomers through television, the medium they grew up with, about the issues that concern them at key passages in their lives...
...tossing $1.3 billion at Colombia, employs almost solely military tactics. By attacking the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a guerilla group with Marxist underpinnings dwelling in central Colombia since the 1960s, the U.S. somehow believes that inexperienced Colombian troops can battle with the guerillas on the coca fields until they destroy a means of production...
DIED. EDWARD CRAVEN WALKER, 82, unabashed nudist and inventor of the oozing 1960s groovy-soothing lava lamp; in Ringwood, England. After the lamp buyer at Harrod's found Walker's display of sculptural, sinuous paraffin-and-oil globs "disgusting," Walker took it elsewhere and hit big. "You can avoid going on drugs," he once said. "If you have a lava lamp, you won't need them...