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The president wants to override the Endangered Species Act in order to allow logging in previously protected areas of the Pacific Northwest's virgin forest. A federal court has temporarily blocked the action, since it would lead to the extinction of the spotted owl and thus violate the act.
Bush's stance on the spotted owl issue reveals his political desperation. In an attempt to woo Oregon and Washington voters, many of whom are connected to the logging industry and have lost their jobs during the last 10 years, the president reverted to scapegoating tactics and blamed the owl...
When times get bad, traders get bored -- and mischievous. Recessionary restlessness got so out of hand lately at the Pacific Stock Exchange in Los Angeles that a rule was invoked fining rubber-band snappers and spitball snipers as much as $5,000; first-time offenders pay $1,000. At the...
"I thought at first it was a doll's head," says Helmut Simon, the German tourist who spotted the Iceman on Sept. 19, 1991, while on an Alpine walking trip with his wife. On closer inspection, however, they realized that the head and shoulders protruding from the Similaun glacier were...
Bush's convention speech was a dramatic exception. Accusing Clinton of constantly taking numerous positions on a single issue, the president remarked that the Arkansas governor "has been spotted in more places than Elvis." And a few minutes later, he bashed Clinton's "Elvis Economics."