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...Will Win: One of the dueling autistics. Rush has swept the pre-Oscar awards, but Sling Blade is riding a big wave of support, especially among actors, who comprise by far the largest voting bloc. I'll give Thornton a razor's edge lead: his picture has the most indie-credibility and the Academy prefers to buy American...
...Health Organization announced the number of tuberculosis cases worldwide has leveled off for the first time in decades thanks to a new treatment plan which trains health care workers to make sure patients take their medicine. But the organization warned the skyrocketing number of TB cases in former Soviet bloc countries could afflict Western Europe and possibly the rest of the world if the plan is not vigorously applied there. The treatment strategy, known as DOTS -- Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course -- simply instructs medical workers, teachers and others to observe TB patients more closely in order to prevent them from...
...Senator Alfonse D'Amato. The Republican from Long Island was down in the polls back home, under fire for his partisan assaults on President Clinton's ethics, desperate for an issue that would refurbish his image. Bronfman brought him a heaven-sent gift certain to appeal to his large bloc of Jewish voters. When Bronfman told him about the Swiss banks' stalling, D'Amato offered public hearings by his Senate banking committee. With the in-your-face D'Amato aboard, the war was about to begin in earnest...
...That's just the point, the Clinton Administration counters, that children under 18 are too young to make responsible decisions about smoking. Whatever the ruling, the tobacco industry is hedging its bets by aggressively expanding operations in foreign markets such as Asia and the former Soviet bloc, areas where tobacco regulations are scarce and youthful consumers eager to snap up high-profile Western products are plentiful. Also in the works -- development of "safer" cigarettes, which so far haven't made it out of research labs. Osteen has promised a decision on the regulations anywhere from between five to 10 weeks...
Bulgaria was the most docile of the old Warsaw Pact states, and its bosses held onto the bobbing wreckage of the Soviet-era centralized economy long after the bloc broke up in 1989. The Communist Party, restyled the Socialist Party, has governed for four of the seven years since then, keeping 90% of the economy in the hands of the state. While inflation soared and wages plummeted, corrupt officials stripped the country of its assets, turning the rest of Bulgaria's 8.4 million people into some of the poorest in Europe. Bulgarians have had enough and are demanding that Parliament...