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Time Warner, parent company of TIME, is currently the biggest media company in the world, with assets including cable, broadcast, a movie studio, book publishing, a magazine division and the fledgling WB network. And the Viacom-CBS deal has again piqued the longstanding yearning of Time Warner vice chairman Ted Turner (who once made a run at CBS) to buy NBC, the only major network not affiliated with a Hollywood studio. That's not likely to happen, since Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin seems satisfied with the WB and the company's collection of cable networks...
...Hillary?s New York Senate run? Republicans want to know. Clinton ain?t telling. The White House braved the ghosts of Nixon one more time Thursday and invoked executive privilege, waving away congressional subpoenas for documents and witnesses from the likes of Vince Foster sleuth Dan Burton (R-Ind.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee. "The president has a moral obligation to the American people to explain why he let terrorists out of prison," Burton said Thursday...
Those statistics could spell trouble. Dr. Jon Abramson, chairman of the pediatrics academy's immunization committee, recalls that between 1989 and 1991, when many people were becoming wary of vaccines, measles-immunization rates dropped 10% and an outbreak ensued, resulting in 55,000 cases, several thousand hospitalizations and 120 deaths. "Since we started immunizing again," Abramson says, "there have been very few outbreaks of indigenous measles...
...mail address, the school's website or which night online homework help chat will be offered. "The 1999-2000 school year will be the one where the majority of parents really feel the Internet's influence on their child's education at the everyday level," says Jonathan Carson, chairman and ceo of the Family Education Co., based in Boston, which offers an informational parenting website at familyeducation.com and a framework for local schools to create and maintain their own sites...
IMMEDIATE INTERVENTION Five years ago, a Grimsley student shot and wounded an assistant principal and then turned the gun on himself. "Our kids know they don't want to go down that road again," says Phil Weaver, chairman of the school's counseling department. If teachers spot a kid who's having trouble, they immediately talk to a counselor who can set up a family conference, and Teague meets weekly with the school counselors to keep informed of potential problems. A strong parent-teacher-student association makes sure kids and families are aware of all the resources available within...