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Junior Mike Layden, a projected starter, recently underwent arthroscopic surgery and is expected to miss at least one month. Sophomores Scott Larkee and Joe Weidle are two of the leading candidates for the openings...
...host of modern threats, from TV violence to tainted burgers to weary mothers holding down three jobs. Between the White House's proposals on teen smoking and Al Gore's oath to protect children from lighting up, the Clinton-Gore team seemed to be running against the Dole-Gingrich-Joe Camel ticket...
What's most surprising, observes Joe Gurman, a space physicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is that all this is occurring despite the fact that we're currently in a solar minimum--the interval of relative calm that reigns between the end of one 11-year sunspot cycle and the beginning of another. Sunspots always signal more violent solar activity than average. But, says Gurman: "We now know that there's no such thing as a quiet...
...Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man will be out of our children's reach forever," said Clinton--hopefully. The changes, first previewed last summer, are likely to be tied up in the courts for years. If they take effect, cigarette sales would require a photo I.D. offering proof of age. In magazines read by a significant number of teens, tobacco ads would be limited to a black-and-white, all-text format--no photographs, no cartoon camels with phallic snouts. The same rules would apply to billboards, which would be banned entirely within 1,000 ft. of schools or playgrounds...
...feet of schools or playgrounds. After fashioning this policy missile, the Clinton camp hurled it right at Bob Dole, who half-heartedly defended tobacco last month, questioning whether it was really addictive. "Bob Dole faces a big decision today: protect children or protect the tobacco lobby," said Administration spokesman Joe Lockhart. "Dole will defend himself by bringing up the Administration's bad record on the drug issue," says TIME's John Dickerson. "Right now, the drug issue is a powerful one, and it is one reason why Clinton seized on the teen smoking problem. Dole will keep his mouth shut...