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Gore lives in those weeds. On health care, he and his staff struggled to develop a program throughout the summer, talking about the future of medicine, how the human-genome project would be completed in his first term, how it could transform the health-care landscape. On Aug. 13 they met at Gore's office. On Aug. 18 they met at his house. "I want to go as far as I possibly can," Gore told his staff. "These small steps are nice, but that's what we've been doing for the past 6 1/2 years." Aides laid 13 policy...
...place simply because of all those zeroes the show gives away. "The drama on television at this point is so pitifully synthetic that the only real drama is on the quiz show," says Ben Stein, the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, Comedy Central's second highest-rated program. "People are terribly keyed up. The people I shake hands with after each round, their hands are soaking wet. I've seen grown men, repeatedly, cry after shows. And that's only for 5,000 bucks." On Greed, one contestant fainted. That's good television...
...success of Question begat The $64,000 Challenge, in which those who had won $8,000 or more on Question could reappear. And then there was Twenty-One, which premiered on NBC Sept. 12, 1956. This program, chiefly the brainchild of producer Dan Enright, roughly adapted the rules of blackjack to a TV-quiz format: two contestants, two isolation booths, a series of questions worth from 1 to 11 points and drawn from 108 categories. Not only were these rules cutthroat; they were virtually impossible. No one would watch a show featuring two people being baffled by question after question...
BREAK THE HABIT Over the past decade, there has been a 30% surge in the number of U.S. teens who have taken up smoking. But there is hope. The American Lung Association last year initiated a program in schools called Not-on-Tobacco (800-LUNG-USA) to help teens address the reasons they smoke and aid them in dropping the habit. So far, the quitting rate of participating teens has been around...
Students paying tuition in full will be spared the usual fee hike, and students receiving financial aid or on the federal work-study program will continue to receive the same benefits based on their financial situation...