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...time he's gone too far. Impregnating Karin Stanford--a former political-science professor who at the time of the affair was head of the Washington office of Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition--wasn't a minor ethical lapse. It's hard to think of any act more certain to knock Jackson, who was a 56-year-old father of five when the baby was conceived, off the moral high horse from which he has preached to inner-city youngsters about the threats posed by aids, drugs and unwed pregnancy. It's time to give him another gold Rolex, thank...
...AIDS victims). Powell's input on the decision isn't known. No doubt the general's charisma and star power will give him a comfortable honeymoon, so he can avoid such questions for a while. But the Washington press has a way of building you up so it can knock you down. As his former colleagues at the Pentagon say, he'd better prepare for incoming...
...installed in a newly created post of FAA chief operating officer to break through the institutional gridlock--from the Environmental Protection Agency (which evaluates environmental impact) to the Department of Transportation (which approves new airlines and routes). The COO has to behave like an air czar. "Somebody needs to knock some heads," says Bob Francis, a former FAA official who was vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board...
Doing it in monkeys, however, could save lives. For more than a decade, researchers have been working with so-called knock-out and knock-in mice--rodents that have had genes added or effectively subtracted from their genome. By observing these custom-made lab animals, researchers have gleaned invaluable information about the workings of hundreds of illnesses, including arteriosclerosis, sickle-cell anemia and nearly every variety of cancer that afflicts people...
...looming writers' strike hits this summer, some of the cheap reality shows likely to fill the airtime could stay on after the strike ends, especially if Survivor demonstrates the genre's viability. That may also depend on the continued success of a wave of just-debuted knock-off reality shows that began last week (see boxes)--not unlike the game shows that, exactly this time last year, assumed it would be easy to mimic Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Say, what time is Winning Lines on anyway...