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...spectacle of Khatami denouncing the students who?d launched their protest to defend his own reforms from conservative attack captures the dilemma of a man trying to change Iran?s theocracy from within. "Khatami was caught between contending forces, and had to avoid alienating any of them and show his loyalty to the system while at the same time trying to change it," says TIME correspondent William Dowell, who covered the 1979 revolution from Tehran. "He couldn't afford to allow the conservatives to paint him as an enemy of the revolution. But he's going to find himself under...
...reason to think the genetically altered products are unsafe, the secretary is well aware that even in the United States there is rising consumer concern about how such foods may affect the environment. ?The government is doing this to provide an additional piece of safety evidence and to show that the Europeans are making a false argument,? says TIME senior economic reporter Bernard Baumohl. The fact is, reports Baumohl, that no country in the world is as advanced as the U.S. in the field of biotechnology. The Europeans are at least five years behind in developing a state...
HIDDEN HEPATITIS Contracting hepatitis C is bad enough. Now Italian researchers report that one-third of the hepatitis C patients they studied also harbored the hepatitis B virus--even though it didn't show up on a standard blood test. Carrying both infections makes treatment more difficult and increases the odds of complications like cirrhosis of the liver, or even death...
...years Californians have been willing to watch a Japanese cooking show without English-language translation on an obscure local cable channel. The program, a sweaty competition among chefs given an hour to make a meal around a particular ingredient, was so fiercely serious that it provided entertainment aplenty. Now, though, the Food Network has fashioned it into perhaps the most exciting cooking show ever made, simply by adding a mix of dubbing and subtitles. In the show's current incarnation, you can listen to a Bob Costas-like commentator as he is interrupted by Christiane Amanpour-esque reports from...
Since film critic Gene Siskel died in February, questions have swirled about the future of the popular TV show he hosted with fellow Chicago scribe Roger Ebert. Well, now we know ?- sort of. In September, the Disney-syndicated series will change its name from "Siskel & Ebert" to "Roger Ebert & the Movies," with new theme music and rotating guest critics. Yet to be determined: whether Ebert will let colleagues give the digital seal of approval. "In respect to Gene, we're not allowing other people to use the thumbs right now," says Mary Kellogg, the Disney exec overseeing the show. "Things...