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...announcement could greet the passengers crammed into the slim fuselage of the last Concorde in service. But frequent Concorde flyers will be happy to learn that the crunch may never come. Last week British Aerospace and Aerospatiale of France said they will spend $36 million over the next five years to study the feasibility of a second-generation supersonic jetliner. It is a high-flying ambition. The current Concorde, operated by British Airways and Air France, has a range of 4,000 miles and a payload of just 100 passengers. Concorde II would fly twice the distance carrying as many...
...SPARE THAT TREE. The winners of the first Goldman Environmental Prizes, a new award for champions of Mother Earth, were supposed to get $60,000 apiece. Not so fast, says the IRS, which is demanding that the foundation withhold some $22,000 in federal and local taxes from the five foreign winners. Lois Gibbs, the U.S. honoree, will not be docked since she is obliged to declare her winnings as income (prizes to Americans, including the Nobels, used to be exempt, but no longer are). The notion of taxing people like Kenyan Michael Werikhe, who is fighting to save...
With scores more S&Ls designated for sale or closure in the weeks ahead, the legacy of fraud is likely to keep paying handsomely for asset chasers like Pankau. His firm claims to have increased its revenues 50% in each of the past five years, and plans new offices in such growing white-collar-crime capitals as Arizona and Florida. Pankau has even taken a few lessons from the bad guys, spreading the ownership of his company among his three children, through trusts. That, he explains, is partly to protect himself from liability suits in case any of his targets...
...redemption -- has ended in failure on a breathtaking scale: not just economic and political but also ecological, spiritual and, not surprising for an enterprise of such overweening hubris, moral. The deeper meaning of the overthrow of communism is the realization that man can shape neither history nor society by Five-Year Plans, and that attempts to contradict this truth must end in the grotesque. The revulsion with politics reflects the view that when politicians go about tinkering with something as organic as a poor family or a rural community by means of a federal welfare program or an enormous...
...more p.r.? I couldn't get more p.r. if I took out my penis and wrapped it around a microphone stand." However, during one sketch in which he played a father counseling his son about sex, several words were bleeped out (the usually live show was broadcast with a five-second delay...