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When State Department officials in the South Asia bureau hear the news on CNN a few minutes later, a staff member wails, "Oh, my God. That's not possible. We've been watching that site." Not very well, apparently. Less than 48 hours later, Washington is surprised again when India sets off two more test blasts--of much smaller, sub-kiloton yield--defiantly going ahead after the Administration has warned India to expect sanctions. The five tests reveal that India is designing a nuclear arsenal ranging from bomblets for blasting open a mountain pass to killer warheads able to obliterate...
LARRY KING CNN schmooze artist re-ups for a reported $7 mil. Maybe now he can afford a belt...
According to CNN, "The United States has an estimated 10 million to 12 million new cases of STDs annually--the highest rate among industrialized countries worldwide." Of the top 10 diseases reported each year by the Centers for Disease Control, five are STDs: chlamydia, gonorrhea, AIDS, syphilis and hepatitis B. Their rapid spread in the U.S. reveals that STDs are not just a by-product of biological realities, but of social and cultural ones as well. This week's announcement is an indicator that a set of problems once considered private is so widespread that it has become public...
...Microsoft, it's a simple menu guiding surfers to popular sites like Disney and CNN. To Redmond's critics, it's an abuse of monopoly power. The Active Channel Bar "decreases consumer choice," the Software Publishers Association told the Justice Department. In response, Microsoft said PC makers could sell copies of Win 98 with the channel bar hidden. That wasn't enough for SPA president Ken Wasch, who says, "The channel bar should be completely empty," so anyone other than Microsoft can fill...
Still, few people these days are home in time to catch the network evening news. These viewers are now being served by cable channels like MSNBC (with Brian Williams' 9 p.m. newscast) and CNN (which is about to introduce a four-night-a-week magazine show, airing at 10 p.m., in conjunction with Time Inc. magazines). Local stations in many markets have done well with newscasts opposite the last hour of network prime-time fare. In Europe and Canada, national TV newscasts have run in prime time for years...