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...When the Buck Center for Research in Aging proposed to conduct research on rats and other rodents at the $30 million facility it plans to build in suburban Marin County, some residents sounded the alarm. Animal-rights activists warned that studying the beasts would lead to unnecessary cruelty and that the laboratory could be a source of dangerous medical wastes. But another ominous potential threat, opponents argued, was that living near the center might make people feel bad about themselves...
...they may, sometimes Presidents cannot pass that unpleasant buck. When Nixon implored his old friend and Secretary of State William Rogers to order the resignation of White House aides John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman, caught up in the Watergate scandal, Rogers refused, telling Nixon he should do it himself. There followed one of the age's grand political soap operas, with teary meetings, prayers and arguments. But Nixon did it. Later he would recall the words of Britain's heroic Prime Minister William Gladstone: "The first essential for a Prime Minister is to be a good butcher...
...market's initial response to the company's innovative attempt to shave its debt was to run for cover. In just a week, Time Warner shares dropped 25 points, to under $95. "They're calling upon the shareholders to buck up and pay down the company's debt," griped Michael Kupinski, a communications- industry analyst. "Why take the risk? You're not going to know what you have to pay until afterward." Others appeared to disagree, including Gordon Crawford, a money manager at the Los Angeles-based institutional holder Capital Group, which owns 12% of Time Warner's stock...
Nationalist President Chiang Kai-shek, a convert to the Methodist Church, and his Wellesley College-educated wife naturally became the symbols of China in American eyes during World War II, along with the sturdy peasants depicted in the novels of Pearl Buck. The U.S. armed and supported Chiang as an important ally in the struggle against Japan. Washington was wrong again: Chiang spent more energy attacking Mao Zedong's communists than trying to repel the Japanese invaders...
...worldly cynics in the industry think most of these pictures simply pay homage to the almighty buck, not Almighty God. In the recessionary '90s, when studio chieftains are ostensibly tightening their belts, these films are relatively cheap to produce. Moreover, the town's eye is fixed on the lucrative Asian market, which devours ghost stories with fervor. "The Japanese love ghosts and robots. Certain cultures believe in the afterlife more than we do," explains Fred Olen Ray, president of American Independent Productions, which made Spirits, a low-budget picture, starring Erik Estrada, that will be released this summer...