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...boasts the world's biggest Coke bottle, toy store and edifice complex. Now Las Vegas, having grown up so fast, wants to outgrow its tacky past. The new Venetian, Bellagio, Paris and Mandalay Bay hotels conjure fantasy excursions to faraway places--a gondola ride through an indoor canal ($12), say, or a trip to the top of the Eiffel Tower ($8). The frantic theming and ubiquitous Wolfgang Puck eateries--which make Vegas one of the best restaurant cities in the U.S.--are artful distractions from all that money visitors lose...
...hours of speeding north on I-95 in a shaky car with variable heating, we found ourselves in the "metropolis" of Manchester, New Hampshire. We were greeted by dirty ice and hordes of microwave trucks filled with television equipment and towering masts. Following a local's directions down Canal Street, we wandered to StrangeBrew, a local pub. Inside was a raucous scene: blinding lights, drunken men, officious politicians, self-important television executives and a makeshift stage. As we trailed into the bar, Adam Levine and Phil Griffin, executive producers of NBC's "Hardball," belted "Harvard!" at the tops of their...
Eskew has also worked to protect Gore from another formidable adversary: himself. When the Vice President seemed to be overstating his role in uncovering Love Canal, Eskew within hours produced elaborate documentation of Gore's hearings on the issue and his crusade to clean up a similar toxic site in Tennessee. He made sure reporters had an accurate version of Gore comments that had been slightly misquoted in early reports, and then drafted what is euphemistically known in politics as a "clarification." Says a top strategist for the Vice President: "We stopped that story from ever getting legs...
...internal mechanisms (the otoacoustic emissions test) or the electrical activity of the auditory portion of the brain (the auditory brain-stem response test). Just because a baby fails either test, however, does not mean there is a hearing problem. A temporary buildup of fluid in the ear canal or excessive noise in the nursery can skew the results. For this reason, says Sharon Fujikawa, director of audiology at the University of California at Irvine, hospitals should repeat the screening tests for any baby who doesn't pass the first time before telling the parents to consult an audiologist for more...
TRANSFERRED. THE PANAMA CANAL, 50-mile engineering feat, shipping lane and cruise-ship highlight; after 96 years of U.S. control; to Panama. At a ceremonial hand-over, Jimmy Carter, who brokered the transfer treaty in 1977, told Panama's President Mireya Moscoso, "It's yours...