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...Funding for the $3.6 billion Clinch River breeder reactor in Tennessee has long been a symbol of federal waste and environmental abuse. The House last week deleted funds for it and some other controversial projects, partly in retaliation against Congressmen who had led the fight against pay increases. But Clinch River has one invaluable patron in the Senate, Howard Baker. He told his staff that he had to reach deep into his pocket of lOUs in order to save the project, which he did on a 49-to-48 vote...
...Metzenbaum's guard, a few yuletide goodies may slip into law, including a $500,000 chimpanzee colony for New Mexico State University. Not that the issue is just fish bait and monkeys. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker's notorious pork-barrel project, the $3.6 billion Clinch River breeder reactor, was voted continued funding...
...identified either directly or by insinuation as natural, or as nature's, or as conducive to naturalness. Bloomingdale's, that barometer of with-itness, features jeans made of "natural stonewashed denim." Golden Key Creations of Fort Worth urges customers: "Be pure, natural, beautiful with Vitamin E cream!" Breeder's Choice Pet Foods has launched a new line of "all natural" dog food, which is the regular line bereft of additives, and Weleda, Inc., of Spring Valley, N.Y., sells "an all-natural, non-aerosol spray deodorant." Bootstrap Press of Glendale, Calif., offers a book that teaches "the deep...
...Kentucky the annual Keeneland Summer Sales, the Academy Awards of equine auctions, did even better. There, 279 yearlings averaged $344,183 apiece, up 32% over last year. One lively colt, son of the extraordinary Nijinsky II, went for an alltime auction record of $4.25 million. Said Kentucky Horse Breeder William O'Neil: "Last year's prices were mind boggling, but this year's are about unbelievable...
...photos of Sangster, his vivacious second wife Susan (former wife of onetime Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock) and, of course, horses. Out across the 90 acres of manicured lawn and woods, however, the real thing is missing. He keeps none there. "Don't like riding," mumbles the great breeder. "Don't know...