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Most students, Appel realizes, are turned off by bands like Vomit Launch and Meat Puppets...
...proceedings. He also ruminated in a closed-door meeting about expanding the hearings to include Clinton's campaign-finance abuses, the Administration's transfer of satellite technology to China, and the many other scandals known as Whitewater. It sure looked as though Newt was in charge and ready to launch an open-ended inquiry into all Clintonian abuse-of-power issues that would amount, as one Clinton aide put it, to "the scandal analog of the 1995 shutdown." For now, Democrats were happy just to label Newt the man pulling Hyde's strings. "The leadership calls the shots," said Marty...
...launch our biggest environmental project ever: Heroes for the Planet, a two-year series of special reports. Running once a quarter, they will profile individuals who are working to save our natural heritage. Overseeing the series is international editor Charles Alexander, who has handled our environment stories for a decade...
...quick, broad smile are disconnected. At the age of 63, she is at the bottom of her field--scientist, explorer, advocate. This year she is explorer-in-residence for the National Geographic Society, which has a $5 million grant from the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund to launch the five-year Sustainable Seas Expeditions project. As its leader, Earle will use a new, highly maneuverable submarine to study the waters of the 12 national marine sanctuaries...
Roddy McDowall always had a good face for the movies. A crisp combination of British refinement and wide-eyed innocence, the McDowall mien was lovable enough in the '40s for "Lassie Come Home" to launch Roddy as a child star. Later, it was solemn enough for "The Greatest Story Ever Told," and brightly sinister enough for villainy in 1968's "Five Card Stud." But McDowall, who died of cancer on Saturday at age 70, knew full well what role he'd finally be remembered for: Dr. Cornelius in "Planet of the Apes." And his face, of course, had nothing...