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...VIRGINIA The general assembly rejected a bill last month to establish a research fund of public and private money named for actor Christopher Reeve...
Folks in Tazewell County know they better keep their eyes open, their toolsheds locked and their barn doors shut. Junkies, addicted to prescription pills and looking for anything to steal to pay for their next fix, have turned this 520-sq.-mi. patch of Appalachian Virginia--a bucolic tangle of wooded mountains, steep hills and rolling pastures dotted with sagging barns and country churches--into a society plagued by pilferers. They swipe guns from unlocked cabinets and push motorcycles out of garages in the dead of night. They swap or sell stolen watches, lawn mowers and sneakers for potent painkillers...
There is no shortage of volunteers to legislate decency. A bill that overwhelmingly passed in the House would increase indecency fines to $500,000 (from $32,500 for stations and $11,000 for individual performers). A Senate bill introduced last week by John D. Rockefeller, Democrat of West Virginia, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican of Texas, also ups the ante to $500,000, plus would bring cable and satellite under FCC purview, though vaguely. Yet most frightening to media executives are the warnings of Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska and the powerful chairman of the Commerce Committee, that...
...Administration was leaning toward an expensive site in the Tyson's Corner, Va., area of the Washington suburbs. He wants to know why the new intelligence czar can't settle for more reasonably priced real estate and possibly existing government buildings. A source says Negroponte may reject the Virginia location anyway, in favor of a spot closer to the White House. He obviously knows the other thing that really counts in Washington: location, location, location. --By Timothy J. Burger
...timers and new arrivals -- or "newbies" -- flare up every September as a new crop of college freshmen (armed with their first Internet accounts) are loosed upon the network. But the annual hazing given clueless freshmen pales beside the welcome America Online users received last March, when the Vienna, Virginia-based company opened the doors of the Internet to nearly 1 million customers. It was bad enough that America Online users, clearly identifiable by the aol.com attached to their user IDs, were making all the usual mistakes -- asking dumb questions, posting messages in the wrong place and generally behaving like boorish...