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Near Fort Myers, Fla., a relatively new barrier island heaped up by the sea has attracted developers who want to link it to the mainland with a causeway; that, says Florida Environmental Consultant Dinesh Sharma, "would ruin the entire key." To the west in Louisiana, near Baton Rouge, landowners eyeing big profits from rich agricultural holdings support a plan that would fill in backwater swamps. Conservationists are fighting the idea, saying it would dry up an ecologically valuable resource...
...miscarriages, avenging devil of politicians, mortgager of his parents' home, suavely sadistic husband-and secretly loving father. (When J.R., after 17 episodes of malign neglect, finally embraced his infant son, viewers responded with nearly 10,000 letters-half saying "Thank God!," the other half saying "Don't ruin it by reforming him.") Hagman developed a touch for light comedy on TV in the '60s sitcom / Dream ofJeannie. He plays the villainy sotto voce and the humor-the infectious delight J.R. brings to the business of malevolent one-upmanship-fortissimo. He struts, whinnies, talks out loud to himself...
...nonfiction standard. It would take a work of striking originality to break from the pack of aging hippies and victims of mid-life's critical list. This is the work. Nearing 40, with a mother dying of cancer and a marriage "childless and knee-deep in ruin," Bill Barich attempted an "escape into orderliness." He was to find an idea of order at New York and California race tracks, where winners and losers are clearly labeled and bloodlines still count. If Laughing in the Hills were only about horses, it could still be entered as best of breed...
...their failure to blunt the initiatives of OPEC or develop their own energy sources, the U.S. and other oil-importing nations have left themselves vulnerable to oil-fired crises that would be havoc-wreaking. They include internal revolutions in the Middle East, war over oil supplies and financial ruin for many countries...
...intelligence and trying to "protect" Helen from other people, Anne Sullivan Macy was at once the driving force behind Helen's life and the eyes that blinded Helen to many things. Annie was not a crusader like Helen; at one point, she felt publicity about the "miracle" would ruin her efforts to hold onto Helen; and she complained bitterly when not given credit for her work. She was, Lash concludes...