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LIFESTORIES (NBC, Sept. 12, 10 p.m. EDT). Of the networks' new fall entries, this slice-of-life-and-death series about people going through medical crises is one of the oddest. A downbeat mix of soap opera, psychological drama and medical-advice column, it will try to woo viewers away from America's Funniest Home Videos. Sort of NBC's death wish...
...American and Canadian colleges and universities, the innovative cars, capable of reaching speeds of up to 113 k.p.h. (70 m.p.h.), are following an 11-day, 2,639-km (1,640-mile) course that began in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and will pass through eight states. The high-tech Soap Box Derby is scheduled to finish this week at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich., outside Detroit. (In case of extended rain, the race may be delayed.) According to the < contest's sponsors -- GM, the Department of Energy and the Society of Automotive Engineers -- the race is more than...
...nearby pharmacy, manager Martin Lombardt offered East German soap and cosmetics, despite the fascination for things Western. Most stores have sold off nearly all their old goods and restocked the empty shelves almost exclusively with Western-made products. "It is the customer who decides now," said Lombardt. "If he wants it, we will sell it. These are new times...
...June 28, 3 p.m. EDT). Another chapter in that never ending soap opera: Will Susan (eleventh-nomination) Lucci finally win an award...
...months ago charged $160 to install an overseas line, now asks foreign companies to pay $20,800. The Bolshoi and Kirov ballet troupes have licensed their names in Europe, and the British promoter who put that deal together has signed an agreement to slap the prestigious titles on soap, shoes, perfume and panty hose in the U.S. Says Peter Brightman, head of the company that okayed the contract: "Everyone in the Soviet Union is desperate for hard currency...