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This much is clear: "The Quiz show" is superb. the film chronicles the rise and fall of Charles Van Doren, the disgraced game show champion whose projected image masked the fact that his victories were rigged...
Some killjoys think the states will rue the day that they got carried away by tax-cut fever. The rise in state revenues is not sustainable, says Hal Hovey, editor and publisher of State Budget & Tax News, a bimonthly publication. He believes spending will again be pushed up by "two elephants": Medicaid spending, which will rise once the economy slows, and the severe pressure of rising prison populations. So states, he thinks, will have to either cut other services or raise taxes again, or both. Vermont Governor Howard Dean, chairman of the National Governors Association, thinks momentarily flush states should...
Finally, several hormone-related human disorders, including low sperm counts, testicular and breast cancers and endometriosis (a painful condition in which uterine cells migrate to other parts of the pelvic area), have arguably been on the rise in the decades since DDT, dioxin and the like first entered the food chain. Says Thomas Burke of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: "What we have now is identification of a potential hazard, and that's all we have. What the implications are we don't know yet, and we need to clarify that...
...message from all these figures is that the breakdown of the American family has much to do with the rise in crime and the drop in educational and behavioral standards. All argue that the regeneration of society will depend on the ability of communities and families to reassert themselves...
...first where the action is, the fear that his pictures were never good enough, the existential lucidity that came to him from surviving violence again and again -- and the drugs he used to banish that lucidity. If there is a paramount lesson to be drawn from Carter's meteoric rise and fall, it is that tragedy does not always have heroic dimensions. "I have always had it all at my feet," read the last words of his suicide note, "but being me just fit up anyway...