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...just this whiff of quackery that made vitamins a research backwater for years. Most reputable scientists steered clear, viewing the field as fringe medicine awash with kooks and fanatics. A researcher who showed interest could lose respect and funding. Certainly Linus Pauling lost much of his Nobel-laureate luster when he began championing vitamin C back in 1970 as a panacea for everything from the common cold to cancer. Drug companies too have been leery of committing substantial energy and money to studies, since the payoff is relatively small: vitamin chemical formulas are in the public domain and cannot...
With Wall Street awash in big fees during the past decade, it was no surprise that so many otherwise savvy lawyers kept signing up with Myerson, even after the Finley debacle. The law firms he was associated with are symbolic of what New York University law ethics professor Stephen Gillers calls "the new disloyalty," which swept the profession in the '80s. "Harvey has to be pathological to have told so many lies so constantly," says former law partner Leon Marcus. "He was always trying to prove he was bigger and better than everyone else. But I wish they didn...
...LIVES: ONE STORMY NIGHT (NBC, Jan. 10, 8 p.m. EST). Just before presenting the annual Soap Opera Digest awards, NBC tries something new: a special prime-time episode of its popular daytime serial. Hold your breath: if it scores well in the ratings, nighttime may soon be awash in soapsuds...
...unending tide of new arrivals pushes nature to the wall, California is awash with experiments to preserve its stunning natural heritage. The Wilson administration wants to establish regional councils that would draw representatives from all interests with a stake in an area in order to reach a consensus on how to protect different biological regions. Says Larry Orman, executive director of the Greenbelt Alliance: "Because we have such massive problems, I view California as a mirror to the future." The areas of dispute...
...moment, their aplomb seems to be deserting them. Judging by opinion surveys and diagnoses in the press, a country that long prided itself on being the lumiere du monde is awash in dark soul searching. The French are said to be fed up with politics and politicians. There is the hangover from the gulf war, an episode that deflated the vaunted image of French power and influence. Paris waffled about what to do almost to the last minute and ended up sheltering behind U.S. policy. In the harsh judgment of Jacques Julliard, a columnist for the progovernment weekly Le Nouvel...