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WASHINGTON: John Rowley's resignation as the lead counselor for the House panel investigating alleged fund-raising irregularities at the DNC and the 1996 election is the latest in a string of setbacks which threaten tear the probe apart. But while the investigation is not quite dead in the water, TIME's Viveca Novak says this latest feud clearly sinks the panel deeper into the quagmire. "You had Dan Burton saying at one point he wanted to start hearings in late July, but Rowley's resignation makes that increasingly unlikely. And questions still linger about Burton himself. The Justice Department...
...thanks to the industry. Its Council for Tobacco Research and in-house scientists failed to undertake serious, sustained inquiry into the causal links between smoking and disease formation (no doubt out of fear that what they might find would put them out of business). Its Tobacco Institute picked apart every new Surgeon General's report and trivialized the damning findings of dedicated independent public-health investigators. And its executives, in what amounted to a premeditated conspiracy to disinform the American people, continued to deny what they and their scientists, according to a critical mass of internal documents unearthed during...
...smoking sets you apart--literally. At restaurants we are seated back by the kitchen door, where we dine to the music of busboys clattering silverware into milky dishwater. At work we smoke huddled in the rain and snow, risking pneumonia for (we are told) the sake of the public health. The unintended consequence of each new restriction has been to make smoking a badge of honor, a sign of one's refusal to give in. And now, with last week's agreement--with this consensus arrived at by America's cynics and pols and buttinskies--the attractions of smoking...
Kate is an especially well-drawn character, neither cute nor tragic, believable as eight. As the pilgrimage falls apart, she yearns for solidity: her father, if possible, or the Grand Canyon, to which he promised to take her, and where the name of a layer of rock, Bright Angel Shale, has caught her imagination. Eventually she gets there...
...finger salute. Isolation reigns as our gas-guzzling engines idle away in the triple and quadruple-deckered highways. Yet this summer I have learned that even amidst the teeming throngs of Boston's crowded and forcibly interactive populace, humanity exists no closer and may, in fact, be even further apart...