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Senior Vice Presidents: Richard W. Angle Jr., Michael J. Klingensmith...
...world affairs, that of bystander, has been defined by the Bush Administration's reaction to two epochal events. But while it may be wise for the U.S. to refrain from meddling too much in Eastern Europe's current upheaval, the global environmental crisis cries out for presidential leadership. Michael Deland, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, admits that "this country is the most wasteful on the face of this earth...
...economic advance. Senator Albert Gore, a Tennessee Democrat, advocates that assistance be refocused on "leapfrogging" technologies, like low-emission power plants, so that nations may better the lives of their people without repeating the mistakes of the industrial world. But to develop better technologies, says Harvard atmospheric scientist Michael McElroy, the U.S. will have to bolster its faltering science education...
...Alexandria participants were: Lester Brown, Worldwatch Institute; John Chafee, U.S. Senate, Rhode Island; Michael Deland, Council on Environmental Quality; Kathryn Fuller, World Wildlife Fund; Albert Gore, U.S. Senate, Tennessee; Denis Hayes, Earth Day 1990; Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution; Michael McElroy, Harvard University; Kenneth Piddington, World Bank Environment Department; Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California at Irvine; James Gustave Speth, World Resources Institute; Mostafa Tolba, United Nations Environment Program; and Alexei Yablokov, Congress of People's Deputies, U.S.S.R...
Blinds & Shutters by Michael Cooper (Genesis/Hedley; $595). Wherever the artists or arrivistes made the scene in 1960s London, Cooper was there, camera in hand. For those craving a (costly) glimpse of the time when the Beatles and the Stones ruled the realm -- "For a few years then we were just flying," recalls one of the bit players -- comes this collection of 600 works by their court photographer...