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Salon operators reply that tanning machines are safer than sunlight because they can be more carefully regulated. "Anything can be abused," says Randy Novak, owner of Tan Chicago. "But the damage from sunbathing comes from out of doors because it isn't controllable. You can reduce the danger at a tanning parlor." The Food and Drug Administration requires tanning machines to carry labels warning that users should wear goggles to protect their eyes and that people taking photosensitive drugs, including some antibiotics, should consult their doctors before going under the lamps...
...speculation that poured forth last week reflected Western eagerness to plumb, however erratically, the Kremlin's unfathomable ways. In Washington, Syndicated Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak reported that Rumanian intelligence officials had passed word to the U.S. that Chernenko, 73, had suffered a stroke. The conservative U.S. journalists also floated the notion, citing sources in the Reagan Administration, that Politburo Member Gorbachev was out of the running for the top Kremlin job. Instead, they reported, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, 75, might take over...
Evans and Novak had been sued by Bertell Ollman, a Marxist professor at New York University, who claimed that he lost his chance to become head of the University of Maryland's political science department because of a column they wrote criticizing his proposed appointment. He sued for $1 million, plus $5 million in punitive damages, sums that Bork called "quite capable of silencing political commentators forever...
Some years back, in a poll published in the Washingtonian, Evans and Novak were voted the "least respected" in the Washington journalistic establishment by their press corps colleagues. They specialize in puffing up tendentious controversies, usually based on tips and leaks from right-wing sources, but colleagues acknowledge that they are often first on a story, and their reporting is well grounded. It was their mixture of fact and opinion (what the law calls "hybrid statements") that disturbed some of the judges...
...Court said in Gertz vs. Robert Welch, Inc. that "there is no such thing as a false idea," meaning that opinion is not punishable; opinions should be countered not by judges and juries but by "the competition of other ideas." But facts can be false and actionable. Evans and Novak had quoted one unnamed political scientist as saying that "Ollman has no status within the profession, but is a pure and simple activist." Is that an opinion, or a fact subject to verification? To Judge Antonin Scalia, who is also a Reagan appointee on the court of appeals, this...