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...perquisites of his office. A stinging report last month by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility included charges that he received preferential treatment on a home mortgage, allowed his wife to accompany him on 111 trips without compensating the government for her travel expenses, and flew a load of firewood on an FBI plane, among other offenses. To answer complaints of a double standard within the bureau, last month, shortly after the OPR report was made public, senior aides decided they would delay action against staff members who were accused of disobeying rules that the director himself...
ONCE A MONTH, AS THE MOON WANES, GEOLOgist Eugene Shoemaker, 64, and his wife Carolyn, 63, leave their house in Flagstaff, Arizona, load warm clothes into their station wagon and set off to the west on an 800-km (500-mile) trip across the desert. Their destination: Palomar Mountain, site of the mighty Hale telescope, among others. There, using a smaller Schmidt telescope, they begin a seven-night stint of sentry duty...
With Rullman out of the game, the scoring load shifts to point guard Tarik Campbell, the Ancient Eight assists leader at 5.5 per contest. No team has yet matched Campbell's slashing quickness on the perimeter, but it's only a 35 percent bet when Campbell takes shot (25 percent from downtown...
...railed against desecrating the frozen continent. Never mind that the theft left approximately 100 quadrillion tons of the stuff still intact; the ice is now in Valparaiso, soon to head south in an insulated container. Antarctica will be whole -- and the atmosphere will have to absorb an extra load of pollution, the by-product of fuel burned in shipping the berg back home...
...suggest that he is beginning to grasp that reality. If he can build enough public support to push a serious package of economic and budgetary reform through Congress, he will have earned the gratitude of his fellow Americans for years to come. He will also have taken a great load off the mind of Harry E. Figgie Jr., prophet of the apocalypse...