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...This moment has been a long time coming: European women have had access to RU-486 for 12 years, but attempts to import the drug to the United States have been stymied internally by contentious debate. And even when the Clinton administration lifted a ban on importing the controversial drug in 1993, the French manufacturer declined to distribute the pill here, citing the explosive political undercurrents...
...West End theaters. Two separate Tennessee Williams plays, Orpheus Descending and Baby Doll, made their homes in London for the summer, as did David Mamet's Speed the Plow, a three-hander trying to capitalize on that other London-based, three-actor, world-wide phenomenon, Art (an import from Paris, mind you). Even the self-proclaimed (actually, government-proclaimed) flagship of the English theatrical world, the Royal National Theater, found itself bowing its hat to the Americans with a new production of Arthur Miller's All My Son and a stage of adaptation of Singin' in the Rain. Even...
...Lebanon meant a strong awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. News of political strife hijacked the headlines. As a teenager, I was familiar with names like Arafat, Dayan, Kissinger and Brzezinski. We also knew that the U.S. would always take the Israeli side, yet we embraced every U.S. import, from Zippo lighters to Bubblicious gum to Charles Bronson...
Just how sophisticated is the technology? Look at what Corporate Defense Strategies of Maywood, N.J., has on offer. Last year managers at a New York City import-export company suspected it was being robbed by two employees. CDS advised the firm to install Investigator, a software program that could furtively log every single stroke of the suspects' computer keys and send an encrypted e-mail report to CDS. Investigator revealed that the two were deleting orders from the corporate books after they were processed, pocketing the revenues and building their own company from within. The program picked up on their...
...series called Making the Band this spring. But NBC does not have a single example of that oxymoron "reality TV" on the air. Nothing to try out this summer. Nothing for the fall, either. The peacock network is momentarily without feathers--and so desperate that it seems ready to import Chains of Love, a "funny" bondage-and-dating show that was a flop when it was shown this spring on Dutch...