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Broadcast executives have been moaning that this unpopular story is costing them plenty, but maybe they don't realize just how much. "They've read the polls that indicate the public is fed up and tuned out," says TIME senior reporter Bill Tynan. "While they believe it is their duty to cover a news event of this magnitude, they lose all sorts of income from the advertisers for regular programming whose spots are pre-empted by the live coverage of impeachment...
...Washington Post two months ago offering up to $1 million to any woman who could prove an affair with a high government official. Several respondents reportedly named Livingston, and suddenly Hustler--whose best-known editorial feature until now was a cover photo of a woman being fed into a meat grinder--was setting the agenda in the capital...
Pediatricians at Johns Hopkins are studying a different bug, the Bb-12 strain of Bifidobacterium, which was discovered by researchers at CHR Hansen Biosystems. Like L-GG, Bb-12 stimulates the immune system. For reasons that are not clear, infants who are breast-fed have large amounts of bifidobacteria in their intestines. They also have fewer intestinal upsets. Dr. Jose Saavedra and colleagues at Hopkins have shown that Bb-12 prevents several types of diarrhea, including that caused by rotavirus, in hospitalized infants as young as four months. It has also been used to cure diarrhea in children...
...soooooooo fed up with the umpteenth TIME 100 issue. I want to inform myself about world politics, the arts, the economy, science and so forth. I don't want to read this boring stuff. KERSTIN BEHNKE-GAPP Roemerberg, Germany...
...worry about that until the Fed's next FOMC board meeting in January. For now, Greenspan rates a gushy Christmas card for helping the rest of the world get through an economic crisis that, so far, Americans have only read about. Around the world, U.S. rate cuts provided the world with cheaper dollars to borrow, keeping domestic currencies afloat all over Asia. As we head into the holidays, the blaze is out, at least for now. And Greenspan the fireman is back on thermostat duty...