Word: poisoning
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Every show-biz saga has a pivotal scene in which the pleasure of performing is undermined by the poison of ambition. For me that painful moment came earlier this month when I snagged a tryout for the Letterman show. My instructions from Dave's people were explicit: "You'll do seven minutes at the Gotham at 9:30 Tuesday night. We'll be watching." I was primed, since I had just done two killer half-hour shows at a Planned Parenthood benefit in Greenwich, Conn. In hindsight, perhaps I should have realized that contraceptive-loving wealthy suburbanites were...
Asia's crisis is hobbling the U.S. economy, but it's a slow-acting poison. The U.S. today announced a record $14.5 billion trade deficit for April -- but by now the situation is probably even worse. "Unless Asia recovers and starts buying U.S. exports again, U.S. growth for the rest of the year will probably be wiped out, with serious repercussions for our economy," says TIME reporter Bernard Baumohl. Even more serious than the trade deficit is the $47.2 billion all-time high in the current account deficit -- the indicator of the amount America has to borrow from overseas. Baumohl...
...Pamela Hill, the CNN senior vice president in charge of creating it, explains that "both organizations will be developing and completing their own story ideas." And the results won't appear only on your tube: this week's TIME includes an exclusive account of America's secret use of poison gas during the Vietnam War. The reporters? CNN senior producer Jack Smith, producer April Oliver and correspondent Peter Arnett...
...coalition, including its spokes-Jeremiah, George Plimpton, would have you believe that milk causes heart disease, cancer, infections, asthma, allergies and tuberculosis. Robert Cohen, founder of the ADC (and author of Milk: The Deadly Poison), writes: "The Fountain of Youth and cure to illness can be obtained by giving up milk...
...secret chemical warfare program to manufacture 2,000 pounds of the designer drug Ecstasy, a scientist told the country's Truth Commission today. Dr. Johan Koekemoer said he was told the drug would be used to incapacitate enemies of the apartheid regime. Even amid tales of government laboratories' producing poison-filled umbrellas and conducting bizarre experiments on the sperm count of baboons, the suggestion that apartheid's secret weapon was a party drug was hard to take seriously, according to TIME South Africa bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. "This was clearly a bit of freelance work by people using secret military...