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...broadcasting world increasingly seems like a tower of babble. News inter viewers pose tough questions for high Administration officials; ex-game show hosts lob softballs at starlets plugging their latest movies; snarling radio talk-meisters shout angry opinions on everything from Ronald Reagan to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Amid this flood of verbiage, King provides a refreshing strain of intelligent, graceful conversation. For 71/2 years, that conversation has been largely confined to the middle of the night, on the Mutual Radio Network's Larry King Show. Now King has ventured into prime-time TV as host of a nightly talk show...
Radon is not the only indoor public-health hazard that has increased because of the pursuit of energy efficiency. The EPA reported in June that eleven toxic air pollutants may pose a threat in the average home, where they are believed to be generated by common household products and building materials. Prior to the report, Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and George Mitchell of Maine and Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont introduced the Indoor Air Quality Research Act, which calls for further examination of the hazards of radon and other indoor air pollutants...
...solid man who dresses formally in blue or brown suits and carries himself with a quick-moving dignity. When he tells the story of what happened 40 years ago, however, he can become a 13-year-old on the spot--suddenly springing from a chair to strike a military pose, demonstrating a march step, or hunching down like a shortstop. In his office he sang the school song that was sung by his classmates the morning of the bombing. As he did, he rose automatically and snapped to attention, chin tucked, eyes forward...
...things say "forget I'm here" quite so eloquently as the pose of the shy--the averted gaze, the hunched shoulders, the body pivoted away from the crowd. Shyness is a state that can be painful to watch, worse to experience and, in survival terms at least, awfully hard to explain. In a species as hungry for social interaction as ours, a trait that causes some individuals to shrink from the group ought to have been snuffed out pretty early on. Yet shyness is commonplace. "I think of shyness as one end of the normal range of human temperament," says...
...Cordova, 20, decided to go to First View after seeing a flyer in a Babies "R" Us. The video-store clerk soon found herself sitting in a tidy office park and cooing as she watched her unborn baby curl his upper lip: "Looks like he's doing an Elvis pose...