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...appointee to the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, the state's environmental agency. Near the end of the meeting, one of Bush's staff members made a reference to something called "grandfathered plants." "What are those?" Bush asked. Marquez explained that in 1971, when the state's Clean Air Act was passed, the bill had exempted all existing industrial plants from the new antipollution regulations. (Texas is funny that way.) Lawmakers assumed that many of these aging plants would soon shut down, but that didn't happen. They just kept spewing. By 1996, state environmental officials discovered that...
...actually engaged in nothing more than romantic woolgathering. But the urge to think of Shakespeare's people as real dies hard, and woolgathering has its charms, as John Updike wittily demonstrates anew in Gertrude and Claudius (Knopf; 212 pages; $23). This novel ends where Shakespeare's Hamlet begins--after Act I, Scene 2, to be precise--and fills in the story of what the dramatis personae might have been up to before their tragic undoings at Elsinore...
...size doesn't matter, catch a street act called Josh (the trainer) and Tarzan (a six-year-old chimp) on the sidewalk near Harrah's. Tarzan does somersaults, a nifty impression of Dolly Parton and the only Vegas striptease whose last article of clothing is a diaper. At the end he cadges tips. Save some quarters from your slots stash...
...geographical diversity prevails. The Southeast and a large swath of the Rockies will go for Scenario B (early marriage, no divorce). Oregon, California and New York will offer renewable marriages, and a few states will go monosexual, as in Scenario A. But because of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, each state is entitled to recognize only the kinds of "marriages" it approves of, so you will need a "marriage visa" to travel across the country, at least if you intend to share a motel room...
...abandoning the city and re-creating an artificial urban experience outside it, the house addresses the city by existing both within and above it. With minimal adjustments to the roofs of existing buildings, these penthouses could be located almost anywhere, on high-rise or low-rise buildings. They would act as illuminated beacons, celebrating domesticity and everyday life by elevating them to the status of ephemeral monuments. The houses would also make great observation points for the spectacle of the city below...