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...know the tide has turned against video gambling when Doug Jennings announces it's time to throw it out of his state. The South Carolina legislator, a lawyer and popular fourth-term Democrat, had backed the video-machine operators ever since he took office in 1991; after all, they helped keep many small businesses alive in his rural, job-starved district skirting the North Carolina border. But this year Jennings listened to another part of his constituency, spouses and children of addicted gamblers who begged him to back a bill banning the machines...
...viewers tune in to medical dramas like E.R. and Chicago Hope for the drama, not the medicine. But it's hard not to pick up a little medical lore along the way. Take the final episode of E.R., for example, in which George Clooney, in his role as Dr. Doug Ross, faced censure for his unauthorized use of a procedure called ultrarapid opiate detoxification on a tiny patient--an infant born to a heroin-addicted mother. After a harrowing all-night vigil, during which the infant hovered near death, the detoxification was a success and the baby drug-free. Grateful...
That still leaves other questions on the minds of E.R. fans. Has Doug's impulsive act jeopardized his career? Is he still on staff? Is he still the sexiest man alive? Tune in next September...
...been cold lately, and windy, so at night she wraps herself tight in a sleeping bag, leaving only a small hole for breathing. Beneath an electric blue tarpaulin draped around the branches, she cooks vegan meals on a single-burner propane stove. "Her potato-squash stew was yummy!" says Doug Wolens, a San Francisco filmmaker who is shooting a documentary...
This is the world that our protagonist, Lloyd, inhabits. "You don't do this deal because it makes sense," says Lloyd's boss, Doug; "you do it because it can be done." This being "A Novel of Business," each chapter follows a month in Lloyd's calendar, with an executive summary for bottom-line-only readers and a wry collection of pictographs and charts, like "Number of Laughs Enjoyed in Lloyd's Corporation As a Function of Profit Growth." Bing's style is highly readable: workers aren't fired, they're "decruited." And he can make the most loathsome corporate...