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...traditional Chinese herbal remedy significantly reduces alcohol consumption in hamsters and may help human alcoholics curb their drinking, two Medical School researchers reported in yesterday's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
Largely as an unintended result of his election too. Clinton has tried to deliver on his campaign pledge to "stop this betrayal of democracy" by issuing Executive Orders and proposing legislation designed to curb some % lobbying abuses. But his not very vigorous efforts have been overwhelmed by some side effects of his defeat of George Bush...
...since her preemptive grab for blame after Waco, the White House has been leery of Attorney General Janet Reno. Last week Reno canceled Vice President Gore's plan to merge the Drug Enforcement Agency and the FBI. Then, she miffed Administration staffers when she threatened to force networks to curb TV violence. She had discussed her remarks with the White House -- except for that part. "She's very independent," says one official. "The thing you like about her is the thing you dislike about...
...meantime, Shingledecker's death contributed to the extraordinary Senate hearing on Wednesday at which Reno delivered a straightforward threat: if the television industry didn't do something to curb violence in its programs by year's end, she said, government regulation would be "imperative." Some media executives suggested that the Attorney General might be on shaky constitutional ground with her attack. But many nonetheless felt compelled to point the finger at their competitors. And in Hollywood the company behind The Program, Disney's Touchstone Pictures division, announced that it was shipping new prints of The Program without the offending scene...
...scorecard of environmentalists, Bill Clinton batted .500 during World Series week. Although they were disappointed with the President's voluntary program to curb greenhouse gases, they were delighted with his decree that the ravenous paper-consuming bureaucracies of the U.S. government would start using recycled paper. By the end of 1994, federal agencies and the military are supposed to purchase only paper containing at least 20% recycled fiber, rising...