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American broadcasters may consider British TV news programs "low key and kind of boring" ((PRESS, July 20)), but the viewers are presented with the news and nothing more. After returning from two years in England, I was dismayed by American news broadcasts with the anchor popularity contests, the cutesy chitchat, the endless stream of "live from" reports that impart little substance. The U.S. networks could learn some valuable lessons from British TV news...
...With the added tides and storms, the effects were catastrophic. Thomas Terich, a professor of geography at Western Washington University, warns that even a slight permanent rise in the average sea level could wreak worse havoc. Says he: "The sites with the highest value -- the sandspits and low beachfront -- are going to be severely threatened...
Almost 540 Harvard students last year received Pell grants, which the House bill targets for the largest funding increases. The legislation would increase the average Pell grant, which is provided to low-income students, from $2100 to $2300. Special programs that encourage minorities to attend colleges and universities would also be big beneficiaries of the legislation...
...domestic reforms. That is why he has been so determined to engage the most anti-Soviet of American Presidents in personal diplomacy. Gorbachev needs to convince international public opinion that he is one of history's good guys. So far, he has proved himself a master of low-risk, high-payoff gestures, doing things that in other societies would be considered only normal and civilized. He let Andrei Sakharov return to Moscow from exile, for instance, and thus earned the cautious, qualified support of many dissident intellectuals, including Sakharov himself. Gorbachev has been talking about the dangers of the nuclear...
Last week everyone from Virginia and Maryland housewives to Capitol Hill secretaries and foreign diplomats were streaming to Dale City to take advantage of discounts of up to 70% off IKEA's regular low prices. A sofa that normally goes for $195 was $95, while $69 dining-room chairs were marked down to $49. The 3.5 million people in the Washington area could hardly miss the 330 radio and TV commercials touting the sale -- or the double-page ad in the Washington Post. City buses winked with the company's cryptogram: an eye and a key followed...