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...American Medical Association calls it a "drug delivery device." The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. touts it as a "cleaner smoke." The product in dispute is Premier, RJR's so-called smokeless cigarette, which the A.M.A. contends should be federally regulated. The feud has been fanned by a recent issue of the Journal of the A.M.A., which portrays Premier as a product that fosters nicotine addiction...
...blues foundation, overlays it with some up-to-the-second dance sounds and ladles up lyrics with strains of Tom Waits, Captain Beefheart and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. After that's all done, the band gets down to its real mission: to shake the house down. Explains Was (Not Was) co-founder Don Was: "We would like to sound like the Motown revue on acid...
...House of Love, hit the No. 1 position on the dance chart. The band has been a smash in Europe, but until the release of What Up, Dog?, America seemed to resist its charms. "We had a hip cachet in Europe," says David, the band's co- founder and lyrics writer. "In America we were has-beens." David puts the band's long history together with its newfound fortune and reckons, "If we have a hit album this time, it will work out to a minimum wage over the last eight years." Adds Don: "We had to go outside...
...aides have described a period of "reality therapy" for the President. "Frankly," says one, "he didn't understand the deficit until after the election. The sessions have been real eye-openers and have shown him how crucial a budget strategy is to everything else he wants to accomplish." Transition co-director Craig Fuller, who was Bush's vice-presidential chief of staff, agrees that the President has but recently delved deep into the budget. Bush is only now fully aware of the difficulties facing his "flexible freeze," says Fuller, especially if interest rates do not drop by the 3 percentage...
...word. Watching Bush and Darman play out the game may become a full- time occupation. They could succeed. Congress is not eager to force legally mandated across-the-board budget cuts next fall. After posturing for partisan effect, the Hill may be more than willing to become a co-conspirator in permitting Bush to backtrack...