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When he gave up his first council title last Sunday, Rauch had been the longest serving secretary in the council's eight-year history--a stint which allowed him to watch the inner workings of two council administrations and compile inside knowledge of council's affairs as perhaps no previous council chair candidate ever...
...down the neglected and withering trails of the plains for 20 years, wondering if a new frontier is struggling to be born. His wife Debora is a graduate student in geography. They swept up the entire region, from Texas to Montana, in their analysis. Their language was apocalyptic ("largest, longest-running agricultural and environmental miscalculation in the nation's history"), their images devastating ("dreams, drought and dust") and their predictions frightening ("a wasteland, an American empty quarter...
...neutering of Iraq's capabilities in these areas be negotiated? "In theory, yes," says a State Department official. "An overall Middle East arms-reduction agreement might be created, but that's the longest of shots. The fact is that if we are serious about going beyond getting Saddam out of Kuwait, and we are damn serious about it, then war is just about inevitable...
...longest and most richly textured of jazz compositions -- a suite of 18 sections comprising nearly 4,000 bars of music, with a performance time of more than two hours. By jazz standards, the forces required to perform it are almost Mahlerian: a 31-member band with full complements of brass and saxes, plus such normally nonswinging instruments as piccolo and contrabass clarinet. The work was played once in the composer's lifetime, but in a truncated form that left him despairing and furious. The score was put aside, abandoned...
...electricity would get from the plant to Honolulu consumers, some 320 km (200 miles) away on the island of Oahu. Part of the plan calls for an undersea cable 222 km (138 miles) long, traversing the 1,920-meter-deep (6,300 ft.) Alenuihaha Channel. That would be the longest and deepest undersea electrical transmission line in the world. No one knows whether such a cable could operate reliably, nor whether its construction might harm the Cape Kinau nature reserve on Maui...