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...more monumental than Mount Rushmore: Abe Lincoln's face alone is three times the height of his statue in Washington. In a gigantic party last week, 3,500 revelers attended the 50th anniversary of the sculpture's completion. George Bush presided over a formal dedication ceremony and the launch of a $40 million fund-raising drive to renovate the memorial...
...after the Revolution, there was Shay's Rebellion, in which poor farmers challenged the new Republic's monied elite. In the 1820s and '30s, there was the Workingmen's Movement, pitted against the evils of "kingcraft, priestcraft and lawyercraft." That fed into the abolition movement, which in turn helped launch the women's suffrage movement in 1848. Near the turn of the century, there was the middle-class Progressive Movement for civic reform and a near insurrection by the new industrial working class. In our own time we've seen fresh rebellions on behalf of minority rights, women's rights...
...Until this recent work on the budget, I'd attended every launch since Challenger. I love to see them go up and to be there when they land. I'd trade slots with any of them in a minute...
...Weather Service is in drastic need of renovation. The 100-year-old agency has become a technology museum. Its forecasters still launch old- fashioned balloons -- 70 of them twice a day -- to take readings in the atmosphere. They use refrigerator-size computers that have less power than the average desktop machine. And they depend on radar equipment that runs on World War II-type vacuum tubes. This creaking system is dangerously prone to breakdowns. In one notorious instance in the winter of 1988, the radar sentinel in North Carolina was out of service for 10 days, during which a batch...
...When coffee prices plunged in 1986, leaving him exposed, he handed the insurers $6 million in claims for the alleged theft of a Song dynasty vase and commercial losses on an undocumented coffee shipment. Underwriters refused to pay, so Bilbeisi sued them for punitive damages, prompting Lloyd's to launch a deeper investigation. Result: last December Lloyd's filed a civil racketeering suit against Bilbeisi and B.C.C.I., charging the two with a long list of illegal acts, including coffee smuggling, arms dealing, customs violations, money laundering and paying bribes and kickbacks. That suit was followed by the grand jury investigation...