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...Soviet p.r. offensive was actually launched by the late leader Leonid Brezhnev. But his heavy-handed attempts to scare Europe into abandoning deployment of American intermediate-range missiles only succeeded in fostering greater NATO coherence and determination. The new Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has shown a lighter touch. He has skillfully postured as peacemaker and portrayed the Americans as warmongers. His appointments also reflect a preoccupation with p.r.: new Propaganda Chief Alexander Yakovlev became thoroughly familiar with Western ways during ten years as Ambassador to Canada, and new Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze is an ebullient backslapper...
...noxious cloud that swept over Institute was not MIC but a combination of methylene chloride and aldicarb oxime. At the Institute facility, aldicarb oxime is mixed with MIC to form the active ingredient for Temik, a pesticide widely used on citrus crops. Last week's scare occurred when steam accidentally entered a metal jacket surrounding a tank that stored the chemicals, causing three gaskets to blow and 500 gal of the solution to escape...
...have fans help fill in the rest. Register for a free account to write (or edit) plot summaries and episode recaps, contribute trivia tidbits or write reviews. (The website's editors review every submission before it is posted.) The News page reports tidbits like Patrick Stewart's heart-attack scare and Megan Mullally's talk show deal. For a snarkier take on what's on the tube, there's always televisionwithoutpity.com...
Roller coasters are supposed to scare you, make you scream and maybe leave your stomach 300 ft. up in the air. But when you hop onto one, you should feel as safe as if you were climbing onto a city bus. That is the import of a decision last week by California's Supreme Court, which toughened safety standards for amusement-park rides by ruling that they should abide by the same standard applied to modes of transportation like buses and airplanes...
...growth of regional health information organizations (RHIOs) is another step at dispelling the Big Brother scare. Although only a few RHIOs are operating, some 500 locally controlled information networks are being built, and the Clinton-Frist bill would put money on the table to help get more of them up and running. In New York's Hudson Valley, the Taconic Health Information Network and Community serves 600,000 patients along with area doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, insurers, employers and consumers. If a resident makes an emergency-room visit on a Saturday, the ER doc can pull the patient's records...