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Shaping Time Digital was the job of editor/creative development Lee Eisenberg, who supervises Time's offshoots and forays into new media, including Time online, Time for Kids and several projects still in the works. Eisenberg, working with special-projects editor Barrett Seaman, decided to build on what Time has always done best: providing a big picture for interested nonexperts. "We aren't aiming TIME DIGITAL at techies or the digerati," says Eisenberg. "We're addressing those who use computers and other new technology at work and who are now bringing it into their homes. These are people who have become...
...qualify his Reform Party for the 1996 California presidential ballot. Perot maintains that his organization will win places on the ballots in other major states. "If the registrations are valid, then Perot is clearly well on his way to forming a new national political party," says TIME's Laurence Barrett. "California was his toughest test logistically, from both the number of people he needed to sign on, and the amount of time he had to do it. He'll find the task easier in other states. The major parties now have a major problem with Perot in the race...
...Laura Barrett, director of the Commonwealth Center for Fiscal Policy, said the new tax formula would have a disastrous impact on the state's economy...
Homeopathy's newfound success dismays many physicians, scientists and consumer advocates who regard the potions as ineffective at best and dangerous at worst--especially if they keep patients from seeking established treatments for serious ailments. "Anybody who understands science would regard them as worthless," declares retired psychiatrist Stephen Barrett of Allentown, Pennsylvania, a board member of the National Council Against Health Fraud...
That attitude outrages antihomeopathy activists like Barrett, who believe that druggists as health professionals have a moral obligation to their customers. "They don't even discuss among themselves whether selling an ineffective product is an ethical issue," he says. But pharmacist Jerry Zlotnik, executive vice president of Ohio's Medic Discount Drug chain, sees no need to defend the health benefits of the products he sells. Says Zlotnik: "I also carry candy, cigarettes, beer and wine...