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...minutes of advertising for every 10 minutes of news, plays in more than 12,000 schools, while more than 58,000 schools participated in Pizza Hut's BOOK IT! National Reading Incentive Program this year. Financially strapped and desperate to spice up their curriculums, teachers may find irresistible the slick materials from the likes of Tootsie Roll and Disney jamming their mailboxes. "It's a lesson plan in a can," says Robert Paulis, a high school teacher in Parachute, Colorado, who showed the Exxon video along with one made by marine biologists. "Everyone needs one of those sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BLACKBOARDS AS BILLBOARDS | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...root, it is this role that soon-to-be-ex-Senator Bob Dole most aspires to play: the self-effacing, quietly powerful small-town man from Main Street who outwits the cosmopolitan, slick-talking snob from the fleshpots. And why not? There is, after all, no more enduring American icon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M JUST THAT SIMPLE | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Look again. The Rock, directed by Michael Bay (Bad Boys) and written by David Weisberg, Douglas S. Cook and Mark Rosner, is less a rip-off than a corrective. Slick, brutal and almost human, this is the team-spirit action movie Mission: Impossible should have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: GOOD ROCKIN' | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

...movement for free airtime arises from several factors: people may be fed up with the slick spitballs that candidates throw from behind the mask of a voice-over. But the fact that both voters and sages decry them does not shame candidates out of using them, in part because they work. Furthermore, the reformers argue, raising the money to pay for the ads consumes the candidates' time and corrodes their independence. Since these ads won't go away without a repeal of the First Amendment, the next best hope is to counteract them, to prod the candidates into standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISSUES '96: THE SCREEN TEST | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...crash site rescuers were hampered by the inhospitableness of the Everglades--and the plane's flammable oil slick. Said Miami Fire Lieut. Luis Fernandez: "We've had to pull the airboats out of the water. It's not like the ocean; there's no water circulating, so there's no way for the fuel to dissipate. What we're having to do is land on high ground and then have our rescuers slush through four feet of water." With that kind of contact come the natural hazards of the swamp: alligators and snakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEATH IN THE EVERGLADES | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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