Word: channelling
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...north, engineers are digging away at the Channel Tunnel, at a cost of $13.5 billion, the largest privately financed civil-engineering work of modern times. In the south, crews are extending Europe's most advanced high-speed rail system toward Spain and Italy. Everywhere workers are lacing the country with fiber-optic cable and new power lines. France is also the driving force behind Europe's innovative strides in civil aviation and space technology. Paris is headquarters for Arianespace, the world's leading launcher of commercial satellites. Airbus Industrie -- a four-nation consortium headquartered in Toulouse...
...Honey, I'm Home represents a new trend in the TV industry: cooperation between those instinctive rivals, the broadcast networks and cable. The half- hour sitcom is being produced for ABC by Nickelodeon, the children's cable network (which will rerun the episodes on its Nick at Nite channel). The gimmick: a wholesome 1950s TV family materializes in 1991 New Jersey, where they find that their sweetness-and-light television fantasy life (which they can revert to by switching themselves into black and white) clashes with the real world of muggers, homeless people and feminist single mothers...
...regrettable example, drugs called calcium channel blockers were touted as a treatment for heart attacks, though they had been approved only for hypertension and angina. Later, researchers found that some heart-attack patients faced an increased death risk after taking the drug...
...viewers bred on Perry Mason melodramatics, this proliferation of courtroom coverage is a healthy dose of reality. Steven Brill, chief executive of Court TV, predicts an educational windfall for people who watch his channel. "They will understand that the real world of law is not L.A. Law; nor is it Clint Eastwood catching a criminal and having some slick lawyer get the criminal off on a technicality." But TV's invasion of the courtroom raises tough questions as well. While video coverage may boost the public's understanding of the judicial process, is it quite so good for people seeking...
...competence has suffered a bit of a setback. Officials at Electric Boat in Groton, Conn., have discovered that the $1.7 billion SEAWOLF attack submarine being built there is too large for the Thames River. To move the vessel, the Navy will have to dredge a $12 million, eight- mile channel. Some residents contend that the removal of 2.7 million cu. yds. of contaminated sludge will harm the fishing industry, and have called for a full environmental-impact study before the digging begins...