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...Texas officials are moving quickly to draw up new plans to reduce emissions. And Bush has asked his regulators to consider adopting California's strict auto-emission standards. "It's funny--the closer he gets to the general election," says Ken Kramer, director of the Sierra Club's Texas chapter, "the more of an environmentalist he becomes. But his record doesn...
Finally, we have the second installment of Caleb Carr's novella, which is being serialized in all five Visions issues. I won't give away the ending, but even if I wanted to, I couldn't: Caleb (best-selling author of The Alienist) is writing each chapter as the Visions 21 series progresses...
Ventura's departure from Reform's ranks is only the latest chapter in the predictable tale of fruitless fights for respect by third parties. Reform earned an astonishing 19% of the vote in the 1992 presidential race. But after founder ROSS PEROT's far worse finish in the 1996 presidential contest, the party seemed doomed--an antideficit party in a budget-surplus world. Ventura's 1998 gubernatorial win gave Reform new life and its first major officeholder, but there was no honeymoon. Ventura and Perot eyed each other with suspicion; the two have spoken only twice in their lives. Ventura...
...like to think about it," says Estuardo Aguilar-Cordova of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, "is that we've finished Chapter One of a very long book. We've had the introduction, the expectations out of line with reality, and a tremendous amount of hype. Now we're seeing a closure to Chapter One and we're beginning Chapter Two, this time with more realistic expectations...
...chat rooms and on personal profiles. "There's a sense," says Cummings, "that they don't want to acknowledge who gives them their money." Last October a Fort Worth, Texas, man's profile was deleted because he mentioned his preferred sexual position. Frank Provasek of the local a.c.l.u. chapter conducted an informal investigation and said gay men's profiles are often removed or modified because of potentially offensive language. A company spokesperson replies, "AOL values all of its 21 million members. We want to make the online experience enjoyable, fun and safe for everyone, and we value and honor...