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...nation's wetlands -- that has something to please and displease everyone. The policy will protect all of Alaska's more than 100 million acres of marshes, riverbanks and the like and close loopholes that would have let developers build in otherwise protected areas. But the compromise will also permit farmers who filled in their wetlands before 1985 to keep working their land...
...Olympus camera plant to a J.C. Penney telemarketing center. The state, which has a budget surplus of $100 million, can afford to offer generous tax incentives, and it assiduously cuts red tape. When Great American Stock relocated to Rio Rancho two months ago, it obtained a building permit in 11 days at a cost of $2,200; a comparable permit in San Diego, the company says, might have taken 18 months and cost $40,000 to process...
...Jordan, a man determined to have fun, as press secretary Dee Dee Myers put it. Jordan had vacationed on Martha's Vineyard for 20 years, and he pointed out that it met all the First Family's requirements: it has beaches (Massachusetts is one of the few states that permit private ones), a golf course (18 golf carts were shipped in for the Secret Service), a good price (former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara donated his house), populism (the Clintons could eschew the main residence for the guesthouse), and enough celebrities to be interesting without being rarefied...
...import of assault pistols like the Israeli-made Uzi and tightened up the licensing rules for gun dealers to make it harder for people to run gun shops out of hotel rooms or the trunks of their cars. Under his new rules, anyone applying for a permit to sell weapons will be fingerprinted and subject to a background check...
...troops are gay without ever asking or being told -- and that a homosexual soldier will test the regulation in court. If the military adopts "Don't ask, don't tell" but is successful in keeping the language that states, "Homosexuality is incompatible" with service, it would be illogical to permit gays to serve even if their sexual preference were concealed. Changing the current wording to incorporate the idea that homosexual conduct rather than homosexuality is "incompatible" is a distinction without a difference, unless one assumes gays are celibate. If, on the other hand, there is no assertion that homosexuality...