Word: pioneers
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...healing on Can We Shop. She also brings on other celebrities to promote their wares: Dolly Parton appeared as one of Rivers' first guests to shill her own line of "goof-proof" Revlon cosmetics, for which the singer has also completed an upcoming infomercial. Rivers sees herself as the pioneer of a new genre combining selling with show biz. "This is entertainment in big letters," she says. "You're not getting close-ups of snake chains; in a few years there are going to be 35 shows in this format...
...conspiracy might never have come to light were it not for the wildly assorted cast of characters who teach and study at Pioneer Pacific College, a small vocational school outside Portland. It was here that the players converged: Eckardt, the bodyguard who allegedly helped hatch the plot; Eugene Saunders, the young born-again pastor to whom Eckardt confessed, with a frightening telltale tape; and Gary Crowe, the private detective who ultimately blew the lid off the story...
Warren, who taught pathology at the MedicalSchool, was a pioneer in the study of thebiological effects of radiation and was famous forhis work on terminally ill cancer patients...
Warren, a pioneer specialist in the biologicaleffects of radiation, was a senior official at theAtomic Energy Commission. Before his death in1980, Warren also held positions with theDepartment of Defense, the National Aeronauticsand Space Administration and the Veterans'Administration...
...shock. Unlike the family-oriented commercial services, which censor messages they find offensive, the Internet imposes no restrictions. Anybody can start a discussion on any topic and say anything. There have been sporadic attempts by local network managers to crack down on the raunchier discussion groups, but as Internet pioneer John Gilmore puts it, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around...