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Many of the organizations are short of cash because donors think the crusades are over. The Conservative Digest folded this winter for want of patronage. A contrarian publication, Conservative Review, arrived in February with a lead piece condemning neoconservatives for their opposition to protectionism. Heresy survives among the right-wing factions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Right Survive Success? | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

Channel One, the latest brainchild of Knoxville media entrepreneur Christopher Whittle, began daily broadcasts last week to 400 junior and senior high schools. (An additional 2,500 have signed up, and will be on board by late May.) Each twelve-minute show provides a digest of the previous day's news, tailored for teens. Few educators dispute the value of such a show in teaching kids about world affairs. Nor do they deny the appeal of Whittle's sales pitch: for every school that agrees to take Channel One, Whittle will donate the satellite and video equipment needed to receive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: The Battle over Classroom TV | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...accurate on press credibility than they are on any other subject. When pre-election polls in New York and Virginia went awry last fall, the almost unanimous press query was, How could they have been so wrong? That question has plagued journalism since at least 1936, when the Literary Digest predicted that Alf Landon would become President of the U.S. A more appropriate question might be, Why do we so expect them to be right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Do We Ask Too Much of Polls? | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

...study supports the common notion that it is better to drink on a full stomach than on an empty one. Booze takes longer to pass through a well-fed stomach, allowing more time for the enzyme to digest the alcohol. Fasting does the opposite: it speeds the stomach's emptying. Taking the popular ulcer medication cimetidine (Tagamet) also appears to interfere with alcohol metabolism by suppressing enzyme activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Why Men Can Outdrink Women | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...Without public hearings, without a decent interval of time for the American people to digest it... the House leadership railroaded it through," complained consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who opposes congressional pay increases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Votes to Hike Member Pay to $120K | 11/17/1989 | See Source »

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