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Bruce Babbitt: Maybe Next Time. The Former Arizona Governor made a fatal political flaw: telling the truth about his tax policy (Walter Mondale made the same mistake). While Babbitt's national consumption tax won him some valuable media attention, it won very few real votes. Because of this poor showing, he is spending the next two days considering the future of his campaign. But, don't forget about him; the word is out that he's already looking...
...last week that it has suspended production. While the company has promised to keep making film for the cameras, photo experts believe Kodak is ditching the disc design for good. Sales of the cameras, while brisk at first, slumped to fewer than 2 million last year. The disc's fatal flaw is its minuscule negatives, which tend to produce grainy snapshots. That handicap has become even more glaring with the arrival of simple and inexpensive 35-mm cameras...
BABBITT. "If Gary Hart had seen Fatal Attraction two years ago, he'd probably be President...
...Almost simultaneously, another study published in the British Medical Journal found that aspirin made little difference in thwarting heart trouble. Nonetheless, insisted Charles Hennekens, chief investigator in the U.S. trial and himself a test subject, "our study provides the first conclusive evidence that aspirin will reduce the risk of fatal and nonfatal heart attacks in otherwise healthy...
...shutting down the U.S. manned space program. Pressures to launch had led to what the Rogers commission later called NASA's "silent safety program," in which defects were overlooked and engineering cautions brushed aside. Yet as NASA and its many contractors now rush to correct the ! shuttle's potentially fatal weaknesses and resume launches by July, there are signs that the lesson of the Challenger tragedy has not been wholly heeded...