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Black played bass in his brother's band, and their folks encouraged them by cooking barbecue in the backyard and inviting friends over to eat, listen and dance. The boys would get to going so good that everyone lost track of time, until the police came calling. "Folks next door, they're complaining," one cop would say. "Must not have invited them...
...million experiment, financed by a group of venture capitalists led by Texas billionaire Edward Bass, has two basic purposes. One is to test ideas for building outposts on other planets, where long stays would be common and resupply impossible. But Biosphere II is more than just the prototype of a space colony. It is a means of learning more about how the earth -- "Biosphere I," in project jargon -- sustains itself through the recycling of water, air and nutrients. Along the way, Space Biospheres Ventures, the company sponsoring the experiment, hopes to find ideas it can market, from air-purification technologies...
...rusted metal. Ellsworth Lake is still where it was when my father and I would shove off at first light in a borrowed rowboat, seats slicked by dew, to fish for perch and crappies with bamboo poles and worms. Now a friendly fellow who is launching a $15,000 bass boat, complete with electronic fish-finder, says the water is a funny color near the dead steel factory. But Ellsworth's houses and churches are painted, and yards are mowed. The surrounding dairy farms seem prosperous, though fewer farmers run bigger spreads and here and there old farmhouses sag blind...
...clue," he says, wrapping the pieces of bone in toilet paper. "That's why I'm taking it." Elsewhere he stops at an unusual fossil spotted the night before by a graduate student out fishing, who excavated it part way with a daredevil spoon intended for catching bass, not dinosaurs. "It's a metatarsal," Horner says, completing the job. "Ornithomimid. And a darn nice one at that...
...scapegoats for the S&L mess. The report will examine transactions during 1988, when private investors, at the government's request, scooped up troubled S&Ls and then received whopping federal subsidies for doing so. In 94 cases, entrepreneurs like Ronald ! Perelman, owner of Revlon, and Texas billionaire Robert Bass wound up reaping, on average, $78 for each dollar they invested. Some who received this windfall have argued that their intervention was cheaper than allowing the bankrupt S& Ls to pile up losses. The House and Senate have scheduled hearings to question whether such generosity to the wealthy was really...