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Fortunately, Republicans have a few aggressive pork busters in their ranks, most notably Arizona Senator John McCain. While most lawmakers pay little attention to the thousands of line items in appropriations bills, he has assigned a sharp-eyed 29-year-old staff member, Mark Buse, to pore over them and monitor the Senate floor for as long as 13 hours at a stretch. Buse has earned the nickname "the ferret" -- as well as the enmity of Senators annoyed by his zealous impertinence. But Peter Sepp, a spokesman for the National Taxpayers Union, says, "Mark's efforts have been absolutely critical...
Mayo was quicker than many research institutions to build a medical network of its own. It has merged with two other Rochester hospitals, opened clinics in Jacksonville, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona, and joined nine other clinics and five hospitals with a total of nearly 1,450 physicians over a wide area of Minnesota and neighboring Wisconsin and Iowa. Like old-time circuit riders, Mayo physicians regularly visit these facilities to provide specialized care and pass on the latest medical developments; they have also begun to consult by computer. And Mayo One, the hospital's emergency medical helicopter, can rush patients...
McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans--distinguished or infamous--whose interbraided destinies make up the story of The Nightingale's Song (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a tough and fascinating study of war, heroism, politics and the American psyche at a profound cultural divide. The other protagonists: Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter, Oliver North and James Webb...
...days of scavenging in Bosnia with the kind of publicity once lavished upon Douglas MacArthur. Navy pilot John McCain, on the other hand, survived nearly six brutal years in Viet Cong captivity and once spat in the faces of startled Vietnamese dignitaries. McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five notable or notorious Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans whose interbraided destinies make up Robert Timberg's "The Nightingale's Song" (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a story thatTIME's Lance Morrowfinds a "tough and fascinating study of war, heroism, politics and the American psyche at a profound...
DIED. LAURENCE MCKINLEY GOULD, 98, geologist; in Tucson, Arizona. From 1928 to 1930, Gould trekked across part of Antarctica as second-in-command to Richard Byrd on Byrd's first expedition to the continent. Today maps of Antarctica are replete with Gould's name: Mount Gould, Gould Bay, Gould Glacier, Gould Coast...