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...chlorine and it might be more "than they could handle." Health experts recommended showering in a ventilated area to avoid breathing poisonous chlorine gas. The Washington Post set up a booth downtown and invited 31 people to take the waters. Of those, eight preferred the bouquet and je ne sais quoi of swimming-pool water to the District's finest, and seven couldn't tell the difference between...
Netanyahu did stick to his first choice on some appointments. Ya'acov Ne'eman, a close personal associate and eminent private lawyer who is a Likud outsider, is his Justice Minister. The new Defense Minister is Yitzhak Mordechai, a retired general and newcomer to government with no known political views, who cleaved to Netanyahu throughout the campaign. Overall, the Cabinet includes both hard-liners, such as Agricultural Minister Rafael Eitan, a former chief of staff, and moderates, including Meridor and Foreign Minister David Levy, who returns to the post he held from 1988 to 1992 in the last Likud government...
...years that a channel with a strong mission and a well-targeted audience could be a financial success. Nickelodeon, now seen in 66 million homes, is the highest-rated basic-cable network, and it has spun off lines of imaginative toys as well as another cable channel, TV Land (ne Nick at Nite), aimed at baby-boomer parents. Nickelodeon has also provided a role model for reformers seeking to upgrade network fare for children. Says Kathryn Montgomery, president of the Washington-based Center for Media Education: "Nickelodeon shows that you can create more quality programming for kids in the commercial...
...deal, which comes just weeks after the $17 billion-merger announcement of Pacific Telesis and SBC Communications (ne Southwestern Bell), confirms that the Baby Bells have hit their Terrible Teens. Now, 12 years after the Federal Government broke up Ma Bell, deregulation and the digital era have transformed the info-delivery business. Cable companies will offer phone service, the Bells will pump Stallone flicks down your phone lines and satellite moguls will do battle from...
...CITY DESERVES TO BE called the mausoleum of Soviet communism, it is Ulyanovsk, the industrial center on the Volga where Vladimir Lenin, ne Ulyanov, was born in 1870. It contains a varied assortment of Lenin shrines, from his parents' apartments to his classroom to a modernistic museum complex on a bluff overlooking the river. The city is so resistant to political and economic reform that some Russians refer to it as a "communist preserve." It has been ruled since 1990, except for a brief interval, by its "Red Governor," Yuri Goryachev, who was once First Secretary of the region...