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...about the talks today, but his testimony could devastate Brown and Williamson, which faces two Justice criminal investigations into whether its executives lied to Congress about the harmfulness and addictiveness of their products. "Wigand, the former head of Brown and Williamson's research unit, is apparently a top-notch scientist," says TIME's Michael Riley. "But more importantly, he's now the industry's highest-ranking defector. He knows the inside story, and he's going to tell it. That could spell real trouble for the tobacco industry, whose hard-nosed tactics with Congress and the press...
...true, SoftRAM 95 isn't just one more computer product that fails to live up to its hype; it's a hollow piece of Potemkin programming, devoid of the advanced, patent-pending compression technology touted in its packaging. In short, says Mark Russinovich, a University of Oregon computer scientist, "the thing is a fraud...
...DECLARED PRESIDENTIAL candidates today, only Pat Buchanan has the courage to attack the real sacred cows of U.S. politics [COVER STORIES, Nov. 6]. One does not have to be a rocket scientist to see that American jobs were sacrificed on the altars of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in the interests of increasing corporate profits. Nor does one need 20/20 vision to see that the motivating factor for these ill-conceived and damaging agreements was the pervasive and corrupting influence of campaign donations from Big Business. Only Buchanan has aggressively addressed...
...Reed. Ptashne says he loved with the idea of medical school and changed his major to philosophy, but ultimately decided to become a scientist after working in a fruit fly genetics...
...professional cool when pictures like the new one--showing a section of the Eagle Nebula, a knot of interstellar gas and dust in the constellation Serpens--come beaming in from space. "When I saw it, I was just blown away," says NASA's Ed Weiler, the Hubble's chief scientist. The image has such visual impact, in fact, that some researchers tend to overlook its scientific importance...