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UTILITIES. The era of stringing huge dams along the Colorado peaked during the '30s and '40s and is long gone. And the relatively cheap hydroelectricity -- and handsome profits -- generated by existing facilities is now being weighed, and found wanting, in the light of other concerns. One long-running dispute concerns the Western Area Power Administration's operations at the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, just above the Grand Canyon. The agency releases huge amounts of water through giant turbines to meet peak power demands in places as far away as Phoenix. These dramatic surges of water create artificial "tides" that...
...commercial TV in Europe, Asia and Latin America has fostered a burst of freewheeling talent. This year's grand prize went to a stylish French commercial (also aired in the U.S.) in which a lion and a tawny woman climb up opposite sides of a mountain, and at the peak the woman outroars the lion for a bottle of Perrier. Another winner was a spectacular English spot for Reebok sneakers in which a Mohawk steelworker sprints and leaps atop an Atlanta skyscraper. The ad is so scary that it was banned from British TV. Overall, Britain won the most Lions...
...mighty have fallen. In what used to be the German Democratic Republic, the Communist Party is an anorectic shade of its former self. With a peak membership of 2.3 million, it once embodied East Germany's political, intellectual, military and bureaucratic elite. Now reborn as the Party of Democratic Socialism, it has a scant 250,000 adherents, the majority of them former communist functionaries who, says one observer, "cannot believe they can hang up the socialist dream like a soiled coat." They remain loyal even though thousands have lost their jobs because of what Germans call Ausgrenzung, or discrimination against...
...give every American a tangible benefit for his tax dollar. Not only do picnicgoers count on the predictions to save them from a sprinkling, but thousands of businesses depend on the NWS for their very survival -- from airlines plotting the most efficient flight path to utilities trying to meet peak-load demands. Farmers, fishermen, oil drillers, construction companies, snowmakers, moviemakers, grain speculators and baseball umpires all have an urgent interest in accurate weather predictions. With hats in hand, NWS officials tried to impress this upon the Senators last week. And while further technical delays seem inevitable, the betting is that...
Henry, a thickset man of 68, has been head of the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People since the civil rights movement was at its peak. Mississippi's Delta was one of its deadliest battlegrounds, a crescent of tormented land between Memphis and Vicksburg, hemmed by the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, the poorest and blackest part of this country. A generation ago, some of the most oppressed blacks in the most harshly segregated state in the U.S. rose to claim their share of America's dream, and some whites did their violent worst...