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...longtime advisers and his principal fund raiser, Knight tends to the darker side of Gore's world. It was Knight, the Clinton-Gore campaign manager in 1996, who prepared many of the "call sheets" that Gore worked from when dialing for dollars. Now, after Attorney General Janet Reno has begun a preliminary review of those calls under the independent-counsel law, government sources tell TIME that Justice is also probing Knight's multilayered connections to a Massachusetts manufacturer that won $33 million in federal contracts and regulatory breaks from the Clinton Administration while the firm and its officers raised...
...goes well, Surveyor will operate into the year 2000. Even before then, NASA's next Mars ships--a lander and an orbiter set to launch in 1998--should have arrived and begun their own surveys. "We're here for a long visit," said Cunningham. "We're here to stay, essentially." It will be a while before Mars is lonely again...
...diet-drug revolution is facing a backlash. Some of the nation's largest HMOs, including Aetna U.S. Healthcare and Prudential Healthcare, have begun cutting back or eliminating reimbursement for both pills. Diet chains like Jenny Craig and Nutri/System are backing away from them too. Several states, meanwhile, have restricted the use of fen-phen. Last week the Florida legislature banned new prescriptions entirely and called on doctors to wean current patients from the drug within 30 days; it also put a 90-day limit on Redux prescriptions. Even New Jersey doctor Sheldon Levine, who touted Redux last year...
Lear was right. As the millennium approaches and baby boomers begin to confront their mortality, people have begun to seek out the comfort of religion in all aspects of their lives--even on TV. "Since the beginning of television, God has been a taboo word," says Father Ellwood ("Bud") Kieser, whose program Insight was one of the pioneers of religious TV in the '60s. "The industry was convinced that entertainment and religion were incompatible. Now there is dramatic evidence that this is not true...
Indeed, in a March TV Guide poll 61% of the respondents wanted more references to God in prime time. The networks, recognizing a growth opportunity, had already begun easing clergy into the province of lawyers, doctors and cops. According to a Parents Television Council study, there has been a near fourfold increase in religious depictions on network prime time since...