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...viewers are starved for news, the prime-time fare provides a limited diet. Competing for an audience against shows like L.A. Law and Quantum Leap, these programs face demands that the nightly newscasts do not. A prime-time newsmagazine has no obligation to cover the "important" news; its goal is simply to win enough viewers to survive. Thus, these shows gravitate toward the same crowd-pleasing subjects: sex, crime, consumer rip-offs, health news, human-interest weepers. Important but more remote issues -- the budget deficit, education policy, the workings of Congress -- are either ignored or reduced to small-scale "people...
...Live gave a full hour in December to a Ted Koppel report on Gorbachev's final hours in power, and 48 Hours last week ran a highly rated special report on the Kennedy assassination. It may not be the budget deficit, but it's a long jump from Quantum Leap...
...based economy took a leap forward during the gulf war, which boosted GNP 9.2% last year, the highest growth rate in Latin America. But the gap & between rich and poor only widened: there is little trickle-down to the nearly 40% of the population living below the poverty line. The pinch is hurting the armed forces as well. Though they asked Congress in December for $216 million in health and housing benefits over the next four years, along with a 50% pay raise, the legislature has not responded...
...they congratulated Foster for overcomingher past. "Despite her sketchy post-high schoolacademic career, she made the leap to actress fromchild star," Claflin said...
...This is the first situation that cells have been taken out of someone and put back onto that person," says G. Gregory Gallico, assistant clinical professor of surgery at the Medical School and a plastic surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). "It's a quantum leap...