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...picket line. "I feel ready to take on the world. I'm finally doing something instead of just talking." What Campos and more than 1,000 participants have done is sign on to the AFL-CIO's "Union Summer," a program designed to attract campus and community activists and channel their thirst for social justice into the long-moribund labor movement. Modeling itself on "Freedom Summer," the 1964 effort by 1,000 college students to register blacks in Mississippi, Union Summer hopes to galvanize a generation uneasy about its economic prospects into fighting for "workplace rights...
Pick a house, any average American house, and chances are the folks inside will be fans of science fiction. This pretty house in Washington, for example. The family has just had the cable Sci-Fi Channel installed. Mom has been known to try to commune with a dead woman who once lived there. And Dad? He just saw the new alien-invasion epic Independence Day--at home. Dean Devlin, the co-writer and producer, watched Dad watch the film, and Devlin was impressed: "He was whipping off facts about history, talking about social and international issues. But when the movie...
...what's inside. Aliens. Abductees. Elvis. "I think what's hidden in Area 51 is Kyle MacLachlan's career, particularly after Showgirls," suggests comedian Kevin Murphy, the voice of the robot Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000, which last week found a new home on the Sci-Fi Channel. "Or how about this? All those socks from all those dryers get sucked through your dryer vents into a porthole, and they end up in Area 51. The government scrapes some of your DNA off the socks to get a genetic encoding. It then puts it into a huge computer...
...Vivica Fox, stripper with heart of gold), while the three male leads mine all available righteousness and comic charm. Wryness is a big tactic here; it keeps the story from going ballistic. In the late 1990s, you will learn, there is apparently a 24-hour McLaughlin Group channel. There's also a near monopoly of Fox and Star TV news networks. The networks are owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which just happens to have financed...
...Communists just couldn't quit. On Tuesday, campaign officials for Communist leader Gennadi Zyuganov accused Russian Public Television of illegally censoring a political advertisement. While Zyuganov's campaign manager Valentin Kuptsov charged that omitting the five-minute advertisement was a serious breach of law, spokesmen for the TV channel said the ad was scrapped because it contained "unproven allegations" about election fraud and wasn't paid for. The Central Election Commission is expected to investigate the matter. But TIME's Sally Donnelly says it would come as no suprise if the TV station indeed omitted the ad as a last...