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...ranks of Colorado politics. As a state legislator in the 1960s, he pushed through one of the earliest pre-Roe v. Wade laws that permitted abortion in certain circumstances, which later became a national model. In the early 1970s, he caught the swells of an awakening environmental movement and kept the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado. In 1974, in his successful bid for the governorship, he walked across the state, becoming one of the first politicians to adopt that strategy, and gave substance to grass-roots politics. Stymied by a Republican legislature, he wound up spending much...
Researchers had noticed that AZT kept HIV from being transmitted to the fetus in pregnant women. They tried to make the therapy more effective by working on pregnant monkeys, but PETA put a stop to their plans...
Lebed was important to Yeltsin's re-election, so Chernomyrdin has loyally kept silent during most of these provocations. Now that Yeltsin has renominated him as Prime Minister, and now that Duma speaker Gennadi Seleznyov, a top Communist leader, has indicated he will not oppose him, Chernomyrdin is firing back. Yeltsin, he told reporters, had instructed him to put together a list of Cabinet members for the President's approval. "I have never delegated any of my powers to anyone, and I will not," he said. As to the vice presidency, says Chernomyrdin, that will have to wait at least...
...about this recently as I sat in the Saigon office of Le Hong Thanh, a former Viet Cong colonel and now director of a Vietnamese film-distribution company. As always, I was in town on a fault-finding mission, but here in the land of our former enemy, I kept getting derailed by the extravagant civility of my hosts. Thanh, having already provided the twin amenities of green tea and air conditioning, was just then regaling me with a prolonged description of what might best be described as extreme screening...
Payne is a tall, lean, all-American man: a jowlier Tom Brokaw in a red, white and blue tie. He shakes hands firmly and stands with his face too close to yours. When he's kept waiting, he whistles impatiently and claps one hand over a closed fist. He has spent his life emulating a father who asked him, "Did you do the best you could?" Young Billy could never answer yes. He's still trying. Despite a deadly family cardiac history and, at 48, two bypasses to call his own, Payne is, to say the least, driven. "You wake...