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Realistically, LSD ranks down near the annual Jerry Lewis Telethon on the national threat list; it is perpetually strange, sometimes frightening, no one is exactly emptying their pockets over it, and almost nobody feels compelled to do it more than a couple times. Those who do end up like, well, like Jerry Lewis...
...Cohen intends to donate his gene map to the United Nations as a gift to the world, thereby ensuring all scientists unrestricted access to the vital data. Cohen feels he owes this to the public because his work has been largely funded by public donations to a muscular-dystrophy telethon...
...says former beer salesman Ron Brazeal, executive director of the United Leukodystrophy Foundation, who lost two sons to the disease, which is a rare genetic neurological disorder. Such groups devote little time to the kind of sympathy campaigns that have characterized the March of Dimes or the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy. Instead they depend on their own highly committed members for operating funds...
...also collaborated with the League of Women Voters on a user-friendly guide to voter registration in all 50 states, which will be distributed at events sponsored by the channel between now and November. In August MTV will air a weekend-long telethon, soliciting registrations instead of money. Viewers will be invited to phone in and speak to celebrities about where they can sign up to vote. "Kids emulate rock stars in everything else," says Soren, "so why not in this...
...MOMENT WITHOUT TELEVISION (Cable, Dec. 1, 8 p.m. EST). Twenty-three cable networks will interrupt programming for one minute to dramatize the impact of AIDS. It's part of a two-day, 26-hour telethon, Unfinished Stories II: Artists and AIDS, sponsored by the Bravo channel...