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This week network executives were scheduled to meet with the President at the White House to discuss ways to improve educational TV shows for children. Series like Kratts' Creatures and the equally inventive Bill Nye the Science Guy on PBS stand out as models of the stylishly energetic kind of programming TV ought to be aiming...
...security arrangements along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Netanyahu's government flatly denies that the meeting took place. "It didn't happen," said David Bar Illan, Netanyahu's spokesman. If it did, the Lebanese do not approve. Lebanon's President Elias Hrawi said Thursday in Beirut that Lebanon will not stand for a unilateral Israeli-imposed deal. "Haaretz has a good reputation," says TIME's Johanna McGeary. "Lots of Israelis would like to get out of Lebanon. They are sick of their boys dying over there. But I would be dumbfounded if Syria would agree to such a deal without getting...
Perhaps if MTV had sunk its teeth into things and put the whole film through the quick-cut music-video grinder, at least they could be seen to stand by their principles. Otherwise, "Joe's Apartment" fails, despite however millions of years its stars have survived. Wait for stars even lower in the march of evolution: Beavis and Butthead...
...wide moderate streak on abortion among Republican National Convention delegates. About 34 percent want to remove the plank supporting a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion, while fewer than half of the delegates want to retain the controversial language. A full quarter of the delegates do not know how they stand, or didn't answer the question. The moderates may have a highly placed friend. Presumptive presidential nominee Bob Dole wants it both ways. He favors adding new language to the plank acknowledging that the issue is divisive, and welcoming both pro-life and pro-choice voters. TIME's Michael Duffy...
...wide moderate streak on abortion among Republican National Convention delegates. About 34 percent want to remove the plank supporting a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion, while fewer than half of the delegates want to retain the controversial language. A full quarter of the delegates do not know how they stand, or didn't answer the question. The moderates may have a highly placed friend. Presumptive presidential nominee Bob Dole wants it both ways. He favors adding new language to the plank acknowledging that the issue is divisive, and welcoming both pro-life and pro-choice voters. TIME's Michael Duffy...