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Washington -- President Clinton hasn't made a final decision about who will replace GENERAL COLIN POWELL as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but a source close to the selection process has told Time that two candidates have emerged as front runners. Leading the pack is Air Force General George ("Lee") Butler, and for now Marine General Joseph Hoar is holding on to second place. Since Powell and his immediate predecessor have come from the Army and Navy respectively, the normal rotation would suggest that the next Joint Chiefs Chairman be a general, such as Butler, from...
...class neighborhoods in north Omaha, a gunshot crackles through the air. Foster turns the corner. A mother and three children run toward his car. "Some kids are shooting at people just down the street there," says the woman, pointing nervously. Foster circles the block, slowing as he approaches a pack of kids mingling in front of a house. "We were just having a party, a birthday party," says one, "when these guys drive by and start shooting at us." Twenty minutes later and only blocks away, Foster comes upon a teenage boy being treated by an ambulance team...
Still, more victims than victors are expected as falling prices and changing economics force many U.S. PC makers to re-evaluate the market. To compete in the future, say analysts, PC makers must bring unique products to market in order to stand out from the pack. As a result, many companies are placing big bets on such emerging technologies as pen-based computing, hand-held PCs and multimedia. Says John McCarthy, director of technology at Forrester Research: "If you're just a boxmaker, with nothing else to offer, your days may be numbered...
...Clinton Administration's health-care task force is a lot more interested in using a cigarette tax to generate revenue than to protect the public health. The task force, headed by HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, once leaned toward raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes to $2 or more. But they discovered that in Canada and other countries that heavily tax tobacco, the very high levies discourage smoking -- as they are intended to -- and so eventually bring in less revenue than a lower tax. As one task-force official says, "At this point, we're more interested in maximizing revenue...
...said with uncharacteristic introspection. "Certainly no acrimony." The night before his last NBC show, Letterman recalled, "Bob Wright came up to the office, and we sat and we talked for about an hour. And he gave me some very nice gifts." And what were the gifts? "Oh, a pack...