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...combative stance toward the Republican-controlled Congress, President Clinton said he would "happily and gladly" veto the House-passed revisions of the Clean Water Act. Calling it the "Dirty Water Act," the President portrayed the legislation as the legislation of "the lawyers and lobbyists who represent the polluters." Bud Shuster (R-Pa.), the bill's primary sponsor, shot back: "It's pretty evident the president is reading off a script handed him by environmental extremists." At issue are provisions of theHouse bill that would ease pollution controls on industry, restrict wetlands protection,and give local officials more say in meeting...
...month in AFDC payments and $200 a month in food stamps. Currently enrolled in a vocational school where she is learning word-processing and stress-management skills, Brown also has a Pell grant of $760 and a $1,700 federal loan to pay for her education. Sipping a Bud Light with her sister-in-law at The Bowler, Brown takes the news of the probable cuts in stride. "If they cut it all out, I would make do," says the plain-speaking brunet, who lost her long-distance-operator job at AT&T in a 1987 restructuring and has worked...
...THREE GARDENERS use similar setups and processes in their closets. When the plants are small, they bombard them with fluorescent lights 24 hours a day; then they switch the lights to a 12-hour cycle and the plants begin to bud. "You fool them into thinking it's winter," says Johnny...
Once they begin to bud, the gardeners remove the male plants, which are taller and distinct from females. "You don't want the male plants to pollinate the females, because then you will have seeds," Tom says. Sensemilla ("kind bud"), which is pot without seeds, is considered higher quality...
...sidewalk and personally greeted fans at Fenway Park, while San Diego Padres players handed out free caps before the game. Despite those efforts-and incentives like cut-rate seats on opening day-major league players returned to work to find tough (and often sparse) crowds waiting. Said Brewers owner Bud Selig, baseball's acting commissioner who canceled last year's World Series: "We got a lot of work ahead of us." --By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin and Sidney Urquhart