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Another new entry is the publicly traded Rain Forest Cafe, a chain featuring sensational tropical settings, live birds and faux snakes, a dollop of ecological education, long waits and well-rated food. Hot as the tropics, its stock rose a steaming 700% since an April 1995 IPO and on July 1 split three...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton's new campaign dollop is a four-year, $5 billion construction program designed to fix crumbling schools nationwide. "Because it's about schools and kids, and it's an election year, proposing this now is very attractive for Clinton," says TIME White House correspondent Eric Pooley. "Everything Clinton's doing this year is designed to make him look good." The program, which will help school districts pay for repair costs and new construction, apparently is Clinton's response to a General Accounting Office report released two weeks ago that documented serious decay in the many...
...Lamar Alexander, the former establishmentarian and Cabinet official, using little more than a smile and a red flannel shirt. You too can be a New You. All it takes is a change of costume, some prepackaged instant microwavable prejudices and a fresh zip code. Stir in a dollop of self-righteousness, bake for a day or less, and serve promptly...
Pitts was a purveyor of subtlety. He got Richard Nixon to forgo the dollop of "greasy kid stuff," giving him a more natural appearance. Jerry Ford was still trying to comb a few wispy strands of hair over his nearly bald pate when Milt got his clippers on him. He shortened the top and lengthened the sides, playing to nature's own honest impulses...
...simple test in which a dollop of blood is drawn from a baby's tiny heel and taken to a lab for analysis. The result could provide reassurance -- or a death sentence. In most states all newborns are screened to see if they have antibodies to HIV, the virus that causes aids. In about 7,000 U.S. cases a year, the test is positive, which merely indicates that antibodies produced in the mother's blood have moved to the child during pregnancy. But the implications are grim: the mother is infected with the virus for sure, and there...