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...late-night drawling room has never been so crowded: Jay, Dave and Chevy competing for viewers with Arsenio Hall and Conan O'Brien, Dave's NBC replacement in the late-late slot. The new guys are joining a high-stakes poker game where Rick Dees, Joan Rivers, Pat Sajak, Dennis Miller, Ron Reagan and Whoopi Goldberg have played and, expensively, folded. Arsenio's audience -- his rainbow coalition of young viewers, a high proportion of them women -- has ebbed recently, and will slip further when his syndicated show is bumped toward dawn on many CBS and Fox affiliates...
...brothers surveyed for the study welcome its findings. Rick and Randy Gordon, twins from Orlando, Florida, never felt being gay was a matter of free will. Rick, who works in a law firm, says, "I don't honestly think I chose to be gay." Randy, a supervisor at a bed-and-breakfast, agrees: "I always believed that homosexuality was something I was born with. If homosexuality is genetic, there is nothing you can do about it. If there is more research like this in years to come, hopefully homosexuality will be accepted rather than treated as an abnormality...
...hundred yards from the stage, in an area known as the Village, a man named Ellisdee Rick is selling an "LSD Flight Simulator," a kaleidoscope- like device that straps on over the eyes: "It's the ultimate binocular looking into the neuroverse. It will probably replace the frisbee, and has already replaced Rubik's Cube." In the speaker's tent, a more serious exploration of the mind is under way as teenage audience members step onto a central stage and debate. "Utah is a hypocritical state." "You got the choice before you get pregnant." "If it's wrong...
...Marin County town of San Rafael, north of San Francisco, "every day, a few hundred day laborers line the city streets," says Rick Oltman, leader of the Marin Immigration Reform Association. "They come here and live 15 or 20 in an apartment and work one day a week." Last week the city council shelved a plan to build a $175,000 job center for the day laborers. The center, says Oltman, "would just encourage more to come here...
...subscription to Ranger Rick having long since lapsed, Read reasoned that the use of the term "water buffalo" was meant as a racial slur since a water buffalo is "a large black animal that lives in Africa." Pity for Read that water buffalo are found in Asia and not Africa...