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MINING REFORM: Congress on Thursday abandoned attempts to reconcile bills passed by the House and Senate to reform the 1872 Mining Act, which has allowed mining companies to take title to land for as little as $2.50 an acre and mine billions of dollars' worth of gold, silver and other...
Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, who oversees the Secret Service, launched an immediate investigation into the flight and how to prevent it from recurring. Yet the threat from the air has been a secret worry for some time. The CIA often war-gamed terrorist attacks on the 18-acre White House...
Well, it turns out everything didn't go exactly according to plan. Despite the chain-link fence surrounding the 840-acre site, despite the 550 state troopers, the metal detectors, the confiscation of drugs and alcohol and the roaming private security force with the Orwellian name "Peace Patrol," a bit...
Woodstock '94 kicked off today with tens of thousands flocking to the three-day event in upstate New York. Some 180,000 scored the $135 tickets. Melissa Etheridge, Aerosmith, the Spin Doctors, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel and veteran Woodstocker Joe Cocker will perform over the weekend...
A Mandate for Recreation. Luring youths into parks to try their hand at tennis or their feet at rock climbing isn't just a pitch for frivolous fun. A report by the San Francisco-based Trust for Public Land documents a drop in crime in neighborhoods that provide adequate parks...