Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This will be the first time in three dockings that a NASA astronaut will stay on Mir. Shannon Lucid is supposed to stay on the station with two Russian cosmonauts for five months, marking the beginning of a continuous American presence in space into the next century. Lucid's stay would be the longest in space for any U.S. astronaut...
...sworn testimony before Congress in 1994. Then president William Campbell denied that the company controls nicotine or that the chemical is addictive. He also said that the tobacco is never blended to achieve a certain nicotine level. "The testimony of these scientists is very important," says TIME's Elaine Shannon. "The affidavits corroborate the things whistle blower Jeffrey Wigand and the FDA commissioner have been saying. The scientists describe a range of tests that tobacco companies have performed which prove to the industry that nicotine is addictive and that they need to keep a certain level of nicotine in cigarettes...
...payments to cover state medical expenses already incurred. Another five percent of the tobacco company's income is to be pooled ready for other states needing Medicaid reimbursement. Maryland is already preparing such a suit. The first check from Liggett is scheduled to arrive this week. TIME's Elaine Shannon says "The state lawsuits are using 'good Samaritan arguments', saying simply that they didn't actually smoke, they simply helped someone who did, so why should they pay for it." Because this is a more compelling argument than a suit from one single smoker, Shannon says, Liggett settled to avoid...
...student Shannon M. Barrett said that "such a disparity...skews how people look at criminal defense and hurts the people who don't have the money...
...ELAINE SHANNON says persuading tobacco-industry tattler and 60 Minutes star Jeffrey Wigand to talk to TIME was like "skiing a double black diamond run." The former Brown & Williamson exec is under a court order not to discuss his years in the nicotine business. "But he could talk about his decision to play David to Big Tobacco's Goliath." Shannon, a Washington bureau correspondent who has covered "nearly every Washington scandal since Watergate," won Wigand over with the persistence and honesty that have marked her 27 years as a reporter. "You're very direct," a DEA agent once told...