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This October the Administration will launch the $179 million National Biological Survey, in which an estimated 950 biologists will, for the first time, conduct a comprehensive inventory of the nation's plants and animals. The experience in the Northwest has taught policy planners to focus not on individual species but on entire ecosystems. And a determination to avoid the protracted court battles that deadlocked the owls-loggers dispute has spurred the Administration to bring together industries, environmental groups and local governments. An accord to protect the Southern California breeding grounds of the endangered gnatcatcher was reached in March by local...
...software start-up General Magic. Earlier this month, the phone giant entered the video-game business through a joint venture with Sega Enterprises that will enable players to take on opponents over AT&T's phone lines, and it formed an alliance with Viacom, a cable-TV programmer, to launch a two-way video service that will let viewers receive movies on demand and shop from home. AT&T is also discussing a partnership with the nation's largest cable-TV operator, Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI). Says AT&T chairman and chief executive Robert Allen: "This ain't Ma Bell...
...pass something before the 1994 elections. The White House, however, is still making up its mind what to propose. The Administration has already missed three target dates for unveiling its plan and this week a fourth will slip by: no one still thinks Tuesday, June 22, will be "launch day." Skepticism seems to be growing along with the delays. Until last week, the American Medical Association had been careful to talk a publicly supportive line, but now it vows to sue against any attempt to impose medical price controls...
...ideas and images about the Arab world were contrived by Western writers and why. Now comes Culture and Imperialism (Knopf; $25). A plum pudding of a book, with excursions on such matters as Irish-nationalist poetry and the building of an opera house in Cairo for the launch of Verdi's Aida, it is the product of a culturally hypersaturated mind, moving between art and politics, showing how they do or might intermesh -- but never with the coarse ideological reductiveness of argument so common in America nowadays. Said's theme is how the three big realities of empire -- imperialism, "native...
...political party start another political party? The Democratic Party is embarking on a new grass-roots venture that will compete with Ross Perot's populist semiparty, United We Stand America. In about a month, Democratic National Committee chairman David Wilhelm will launch the new community-based organization, and hopes the group -- which will use an 800 number -- will enlist local Democratic sympathizers and eventually have 2 million dues-paying members dedicated to promoting Clinton policies...