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...formidable lobbying operations. The company and its employees spent $4.7 million last year in donations to national political parties and candidates—nearly two thirds of that to money going to Republicans—and another $6 million on lobbyists, including top presidential advisor Ralph Reed. In June, the Justice Department announced that it would seek to settle a Clinton-administration suit against the tobacco industry, which donated millions to the GOP in the last election cycle. The administration should not send corporations the signal that a strong lobby or a change in the political winds...
...only the stem-cell lines that already exist? These lines will eventually be exhausted. With no legal way to gather new embryonic stem cells, the greatest hope for cures will perish. My son Roman Reed is paralyzed. Shall a Republican House and a Republican President be allowed to make it illegal for my son to be healed? DON C. REED, CHAIRMAN Californians for Cure Fremont, Calif...
...stamp on Rumsfeld's plan was hardly dry before copies found their way to Capitol Hill. By Aug. 3, it was apparent that lawmakers from both parties would bury any cuts he proposed. Republicans were locked and loaded; Democrats pretended to be sympathetic, just for fun. Says Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, a former Army officer: "He was sailing into the teeth of a storm everywhere he looked...
...change. And with it, just maybe, so is TV's status as an art form. Suddenly TV's past is everywhere. The all-reruns TV Land, the offshoot of Nickelodeon's Nick at Nite franchise, has increased tenfold in the past five years by offering shows like The Donna Reed Show and The Love Boat, while the fast-growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is owned...
...what is tech's record? I looked at it three ways, starting with the Waddell & Reed Science and Technology Fund. Since its inception on May 16, 1950, the fund has returned an average of 12.4% annually--echoing the 12.8% return of the S&P 500. The Kemper Technology Fund, which started in 1948 as, get this, the Television Fund, is the only other survivor from that era. Its returns modestly top the S&P 500 during the past 50- and 25-year periods...