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...Environmental Enemy No. 1. It will probably be 1990 before Exxon and the National Transportation Safety Board release their reports on the Valdez spill. Meanwhile, late-night comics continue to rip into the skipper, and several songs about a drunken Hazelwood play on Alaskan radio stations. Not long ago, a businessman called Hazelwood to ask permission to market a novelty item called Ole Hazelwood -- a liquor bottle filled with oil and water...
...language there has traditionally been German. The historic role of Germany, however, is a troublesome obstacle to what Bush referred to as "making Europe whole again." Poles in particular have suffered from German expansionism, stretching from the Teutonic Knights of the 13th century to Hitler's invasion 50 years ago. To the extent that the E.C. becomes more unified, fears of a resurgent Germany are likely to recede. A strong E.C. could also serve as the core of a more self-sufficient Europe...
...muggy Houston morning, George Foreman, the heavyweight boxing champion of 15 years ago, is bundled in a military shirt and heavy work pants, plodding up and down a freeway embankment in the piney woods near his home. Foreman isn't just climbing the steep hill. He is maneuvering up it backward -- up and back, up and back -- a modern-day Sisyphus, sweating and straining in the heavy grass. As he moves, the old fighter hurls jabs and uppercuts at the blazing sun with his prodigious arms...
...fights since he launched his comeback two years ago, Foreman has knocked out every foe, leading him to crow, "I've proved myself. I deserve a chance at Tyson. He can't say he's the best as long as a 40-year-old man not from Mars is sitting out here. He can't whup me." Foreman rambles on, branding Tyson a "sneaky crybaby" and insisting, "My biggest job will be catching...
Down the road from the youth center is the tiny Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, which evangelist Foreman helped found nine years ago. With the fighter on the trumpet and cymbals, Sunday services are rarely dull. His sermons sometimes seem directed at himself. "Once you fall, you ain't comin back," he advised the flock recently. "Make noise in a strange fashion, or God may not notice...