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...grew too blatant to ignore this season. Of the 26 new fall shows announced by the networks, none featured an African American, Latino or Asian American in a leading role. When the N.A.A.C.P. complained, the network honchos admitted the problem and began scrambling to add minority roles. NBC's ER brought on a black woman doctor and an Asian medical student, for example, while CBS's new series Judging Amy tossed in a black bailiff...
...seven episodes since then. Before putting him on drugs that kept his heartbeat regular, in 1998, doctors had to apply an electrical current across his chest on three different occasions to get his heartbeat back to normal. But such interventions are routine; they are nothing like the drama-charged ER version. Those are applied only in cases of ventricular fibrillation--a type of irregular heartbeat that is different from the kind Bradley has and more dangerous because it occurs in the two chambers of the heart that do the actual pumping. Bradley's heart settled back into its normal rhythm...
What Miss Donna and I are, er, testing is Quake III Arena--the hottest, most anticipated PC game of the year, if not of all time. It's set to hit store shelves Dec. 12, and TIME got the first peek at the finished product. id, the guys who brought you the highly successful and controversial first-person shooter games Doom and Quake, have been working on this sequel ever since they wrapped up Quake II in 1997, and it shows...
...infested-- er, intrepid reporter, there is always experimental error...
...largest - and most traveled - waterways, the Yellow River (China), the Colorado River (U.S.) and the segment of the Nile River that runs into the Mediterranean (Africa) are in terrible shape, due mostly to agricultural and industrial run-off, as well as increased rates of evaporation. On the bright(er) side, the relatively sheltered Amazon (South America) and Congo (sub-Saharan Africa) are looking pretty robust. For the moment, anyway...