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Least-Sparkling Water It wasn't Perrier's year. First, lab tests found traces of benzene, a potential carcinogen, in samples of the green-bottled bubbly. Then the French government forced Perrier to drop the words naturally carbonated from its European labels. ("Naturally" had earlier been deemed a no-no in the U.S.) Evian has now supplanted Perrier as America's top-selling imported bottled water...
Worst Synching Feeling Milli Vanilli, who won a 1989 Grammy Award for Best New Artist, had to admit not only that they didn't sing live onstage but also that it wasn't their own voices on their albums. Goodbye Grammy. As for their earlier boast that they were better than Bob Dylan and the Beatles? Well, sure -- as dancers...
...Within six weeks he had to get things under control in the republics, Moscow and Leningrad or there would be physical ways of removing him." Janis Jurkans, foreign minister of the Latvian republic, tells a different story of a November ultimatum. He said last week that 30 days earlier, hard-liners had handed Gorbachev a list of certain "democrats" whom they demanded he remove from office. Jurkans implied that Shevardnadze's name had been on the list...
...scandal-tainted administration of his predecessor, Ray Blanton. Last week the two-term former Governor and current president of the University of Tennessee took on another big political cleanup job. President Bush asked him to become Secretary of Education and revitalize that Cabinet post after the forced resignation earlier this month of the lackluster Lauro Cavazos. One of Alexander's first priorities, however, will be to help extricate his new boss from the political morass resulting from a highly controversial Education Department ruling restricting college scholarships for minority students...
When bus drivers in Fez joined a nationwide general strike called by Morocco's two major labor unions earlier this month, government officials thought they had a simple remedy: they put soldiers and police officers behind the wheel...