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...Bryant Gumbel, 41, whose self-satisfied manner many find as off-putting as Norville's plastic perfection, will remain. So will Norville, 31, who has been officially exonerated for the ratings calamity. "She's not on the way out," insists Today's executive producer, Tom Capra. "The ratings have slid because Jane left the show, not because of Deborah. Deborah's a solid journalist, and I believe the audience will like her as they are exposed to her." Garagiola, Capra maintains, will "bring out what is really going on with her." So it seems that one host has been hired...
...gritty Puerto Rican seaside village of Vega Baja have been zipping around with new cars and motorcycles, buying new houses and otherwise behaving like Donald Trump. Turns out that several villagers (no one will say who or how many) dug up at least one of about ten big plastic drums containing as much as $20 million that someone, presumably a drug dealer, had buried on a nearby farm. While townsfolk kept digging fresh holes all over the place, agents dashed about trying to reclaim the cash. Fat chance...
...than the same goods built by defense contractors," says Jacques Gansler, a Washington- based defense economist. Moreover, much of American's innovative brainpower will turn to designing products that enhance, rather than threaten, human lives. If inventors working for the military and space programs could create everything from bulletproof plastic to magnetic-resonance scanners, they could probably come up with consumer products that would put even Sony to shame...
...Biodegradability is a popular catchword, but you must look at the real effect on the system," Ahearn said. "After all, in the long run the weight of a plastic bag is less than a paper...
Soviet newspapers and magazines are publishing details about life in the U.S.S.R. that once would have crowned a CIA officer's career. Czechoslovakia's President, Vaclav Havel, discloses how much Semtex, a lethal plastic explosive, Prague has sold to Libya over the years (1,000 tons), while East Germany disbands its dreaded secret police. Soviet and other East bloc officials are still trying to sponge up information from the West, but they have widened their scope and deepened their activities; as Moscow tries to pump up perestroika with the technology and expertise of the West, its agents are busier than...