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...enough, even for a 23-year-old with no journalistic experience and a limited vocabulary. All you had to do was show up on time to banter with the other hosts and make sure the network emblem plastered on your coffee mug was visible to the camera when you drank from it. But last week DEBBIE MATENOPOULOS lost her regular cushion on the couch of The View, the ABC talk show hosted by Barbara Walters and four other women of varying ages. As an unknown MTV production assistant, Matenopoulos was chosen for the show to represent youth, a task...
...almost hard to remember what the House Speaker was before Gingrich--a back-room fellow, the big man who sat in the House basement and drank bourbon and branch, kept a card file of favors given and received, scores to be settled in the private pathways of the Capitol. He still gets a big car and a big staff and is third in line to the presidency, but his job has always been a perch carved out of persuasion as much as power, especially when the vote is close...
...such causes. "Nature isn't tidy," says Dr. William Schaffner of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. "We had a case of two people who only worked together. One had hepatitis B, though he didn't know it, and the other didn't. On a single occasion, they drank from the same Coke. It happened at just the right time in the incubation cycle so that the second person became infected...
...next several days phoning people who had already got sick, who might be getting sick or who had remained uninfected, looking for anything they did--or didn't--have in common. The calls turned up some promising leads. One woman worked in an Alpine day-care center and routinely drank eight glasses of tap water a day and even gave some to her infant daughter. Yet both of them were healthy. That seemed to exonerate the water supply, until the woman added one final detail. When she is home on the weekends, she told Kennedy, she drinks only from...
...person who drank Alpine tap water, the computer reported, was eight times as likely to become infected with E. coli O157 as someone who didn't. Someone who was in town during that weekend in June was 14 times as likely. Testing the reliability of the numbers, the computer concluded that if the same study were conducted 10,000 times, those results would appear by chance only nine times. "Which is nice," Breuer said. "Which is very nice...