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...investment in new flooring, says Cohen, also saves hospitals money, if one considers the costs over the entire life cycle of a produc. Although PVC flooring is cheap to buy, it ends up costing more later; its tendency to become brittle requires frequent maintenance or replacement. The environmental costs are high as well. With PVC flooring, "the manufacturing process creates dioxin. In the end, it is burned, releasing additional dioxin. In between, there's the [emission] of phthalates," says Cohen, noting that PVC is found throughout the hospital, not only in flooring, but also in shower curtains, blood bags...
...William Morris Agency who pairs celebrities with the right program-length ads. (Among his clients: John Tesh and Connie Sellecca, who appear in an infomercial for a series of videotapes that promise to improve your romantic $ relationships.) Says Steve Howard, president of Williams Television Time, an infomercial-produc tion company: "In the old days you had to beat down the door as the ugly stepchild of advertising. Now celebrities are flocking...
Brown said she hopes to play a male role in the produc- tion. "Drag comedy is just as funny if womendress up as men," she said...
...decade ago, TV Producer-Perform er David Susskind was generating some bright cultural rays with quality net work dramas and a provocative new talk show, Open End. At the same time, California Industrialist Norton W. Simon, president of Hunt Foods & In dustries', was making commercial his tory by buying up one new company after another. Since then, Susskind has been putting somewhat less emphasis on culture, and Simon has become in creasingly interested in it. Stung by a number of critically acclaimed produc tions that proved to be financial flops, Susskind has expanded into bread-and-butter situation shows...
...impedes synthesis of vitamin D, which prevents rickets and is manufactured from the sun's rays by the body. As early man migrated out of the tropical sun-into the green jungle, north to less torrid zones-light skin thereupon conferred an advantage by admitting more vitamin D-produc-ing sunlight. And the lottery of evolution, patiently awaiting the appropriate mutation, then fixed this advantage into place. Thus, over the centuries, environmental factors were producing genetic changes...