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Much Furby hype originated with the geek-chic set. The magazine you're reading is partly responsible. After Toy Fair '98, TIME ran a Techwatch item mentioning them. USA Today also noticed, and after an electronics fair in May, CBS This Morning did a segment. That ginned up interest last summer, even though Furby's complicated innards meant it wouldn't be ready for stores until fall...
...kills another on national television. What do the authorities do next? Answer: Very little. Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the retired pathologist who has admitted helping over 130 terminally ill patients end their lives, threw down the gauntlet to prosecutors Sunday after CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape in which Kevorkian commits the act himself. "Either they go," he said, "or I go." Kevorkian has been tried and acquitted three times on assisted suicide charges; his lawyer says he now wants to force a "high noon" confrontation with the police. If convicted, the self-styled Dr. Death says he will starve...
...task at hand? "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap drove Sunbeam's stock up fourfold last year by doing what he had done so well at Scott Paper and other firms: slashing costs. But Sunbeam's share price collapsed when he tried to push the business's growth. Two weeks ago, when CBS tapped Mel Karmazin to be CEO, replacing Michael H. Jordan, CBS stock jumped. But it wasn't so much a bet on Karmazin as a sigh of relief that Jordan was leaving. Under Jordan, CBS has run last among the big networks. But can Karmazin, a shrewd TV and radio...
Fouhy spoke as part of the series led by IOP Fellow Marguerite Sullivan on "Power Struggles: the States vs. the Feds." He has served as a Washington bureau chief for both ABC and CBS News and as senior producer of NBC Nightly News...
...certainly must seem that way to the WB's rivals. For the 1997-98 season, the ratings for all of them fell, except for CBS, which was just even. In contrast, the WB's ratings rose 19%. So far this fall the trend has continued. For more than a decade the ratings of the networks have dropped relentlessly, so the performance of the WB is remarkable, even if its audience of 4.5 million viewers is still much smaller than those of the major networks. How has it achieved these results? By finding throbworthy stars, of course, but also by targeting...