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...What would happen if the fashion editors took the initiative and cleaned up their act, much the way Conda Nast Traveler rewrote the rules for travel magazines in 1987 by refusing to allow its writers to accept free trips? Would the editorial content change dramatically? Would a new batch of designers suddenly crop up in the pages of Vogue? Probably not. But until this stubborn culture of big and small favors is dispensed with, readers will never have a chance to see what a difference that would make...
...producers and hosts of the new batch of shows seem unconcerned about any negative impact of their efforts. When Miller was hired as host of The Other Side, he recalls, "I made a deal with them. I said, 'You keep any sleazy stuff out, and I'll do all the weird stuff you want.'" Miller has obviously kept his end of the bargain. --With reporting by Hunter Whitney/Los Angeles and Lawrence Mondi/New York
...began growing his pot at home last July, moving the plants into his Cambridge room in September. He harvested his first crop during the winter, smoked it and is currently growing his second batch...
...Clumps of ammonium nitrate will fail to detonate--leaving investigators with good clues about the materials used to make the bomb. That is apparently what happened in California one morning in 1990, when a disgruntled engineer detonated a truck filled with 2,000 lbs. of his own batch of ANFO outside a branch office of the Internal Revenue Service. Fortunately, only a fraction of the compounds in the vehicle exploded, and no one was killed...
Although McIntyre and Moore refuses to stock many textbooks, the majority of the books are still fairly serious. If you desperately want a junk-book fix, look elsewhere for the latest Harlequin romance. On the other hand, when Patrick comes across a Danielle Steele or two in a batch of other books, those novels go out on the clearance table for a quarter each...