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...Hispanics. Just as Bush hoped, the Democratic National Committee recently denounced fast-track authorization, which put them on the side of the shrinking constituency, against the growing one. "The party is not looking at the numbers," said a Democratic Congressman who supported fast track. "They're choosing the protectionist label over a community that will be the largest ethnic minority in 10 years...
Then came the surprise success of the New York City female rap trio Salt-N- Pepa, whose 1986 debut album, Hot, Cool & Vicious, sold more than 1 million copies. Spurred by visions of a new way to capitalize on rap's mainstream acceptance, record labels have been hurrying to develop other promising female rappers. Now a wave of female performers is giving male rappers a run for their platinum. Says Russell Simmons, the rap impresario whose Def Jam label recently signed a sharp young rapper named Nikki D: "There are more women buying rap records who would like to relate...
...only problem with this marketing ploy is that it is nonsense. Cholesterol is found only in foods from animals, and thus putting "no cholesterol" on a vegetable-oil label is misleading. More pertinent to the consumer is the fact that the oils are a liquid form of fat -- pure fat. And high-fat diets have been linked to heart disease, breast cancer and a variety of other ailments. So hold the French fries...
Other stories have been more eye-opening, like an article reporting on the campaign by a younger generation of gay militants to label themselves "queers." Says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Gannett Foundation Media Center: "The Times has been ahead of the pack recently in bringing more soft news and how-to stories, plus adding a touch of tabloid sensationalism." Other newspeople are more judgmental. Says a Washington bureau chief: "The front page isn't the gauge of important news that it used...
...reactor designed by San Diego-based General Atomics was particularly susceptible to fires in the graphite that holds the fuel. And because the reactor had no containment structure, it was vulnerable to terrorists. Perhaps that is why the nuclear-power industry is quietly backing away from the "inherently safe" label. If anything disastrous happened to a reactor advertised as totally fail-safe, confidence in the technology might never recover...