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Rifkin's critics -- and there are many -- regularly accuse him of taking a nugget of truth and enlarging it beyond reason in ways calculated to raise public fears. "Beyond Beef is about the worst book I've ever read," exclaims Dennis Avery, director of Global Food Issues for the Hudson Institute, a think tank in Indianapolis. "It establishes Rifkin as the Stephen King of food horror stories." Among other things, Rifkin raises the specter of beef contaminated with viruses, including a bovine immunodeficiency virus that he provocatively labels "COW AIDS," though there is no evidence that the virus can infect...
...more than race is involved in country's success. At the end of a decade marked by lip-synching scandals and Material Girlhood, Americans are reclaiming their right to sentimentality, civility and a little bit of cellulite on the dance floor. Take, for example, some patrons of the Golden Nugget, a night spot in Buffalo's flourishing country-and-western scene. "In a disco, if you're not a size 3, forget it," says Heidi Fisher, 28. "They're into spandex heaven. And your hair has to be out to here with hair spray. I only wear spandex...
...TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS by Joseph A. Califano Jr. (Simon & Schuster; $25). L.B.J.'s closest aide on domestic policy during the mid-'60s delivers a hard, pure nugget of the 36th President. Califano provides graphic reports of the bullying and lying that ultimately consumed the Texan, but also shows the larger purpose -- the civil rights campaign, the legislative battles on health, education and housing -- that struggled within the tortured...
...Johnson is like conducting a monstrous archaeological dig, with authors desperately collecting the shards from his mountainous record. Some are intent on assembling the dark glints, while others gather points of light. Joseph Califano, his closest aide on domestic policy for 3 1/2 years, has delivered a hard, pure nugget of L.B.J. that is close to the truth. Califano was there taking notes...
...didn't want my wisdom. He wanted a sound bite. Or, in the outmoded argot of print, a quote. Under the conventions of American journalism, his insight was worthless to him until he could get someone else to utter it, thus conferring on his nugget some spurious authority and relieving himself of any taint of opinion or bias. I could just as easily quote him to the same purpose. Someday I will...