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With the flames of the Middle East threatening to burn any bridge to peace, President Bush on Thursday dispatched Colin Powell to the region to play fireman. The President urged Israel to withdraw from Palestinian cities reoccupied over the past week in response to a wave of suicide bombings that has killed more than 120 Israelis this year alone. He slammed Yasser Arafat for failing to fight terrorism and demanded that Palestinian leaders step forward and produce results once Israel moves back...
...boulevards--and the groundwater is poisoned. All over town, ugly drilling rigs mounted on trucks are boring 300-foot holes to trace the plumes of a pollutant that has leaked from the underground tanks of gasoline stations. The culprit: methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), an additive that makes gasoline burn cleaner but one the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has classified as a potential carcinogen. Half of Santa Monica's water supply is undrinkable--MTBE makes water taste like turpentine--and the city (pop. 85,000) faces a $300 million cleanup that could take as long as 30 years. As lawsuits...
...album wraps up in style with the “Ballad of Nice and Easy,” a rollicking track featuring all three vocalists, and the classic Gomez line, “Sooner or later there’s an end to this candle/ We’ll burn it at both ends and then switch on the light...
...terrible year," he says. "I hit a wall." When he received an invitation to join AARP, he wanted to burn the letter the way some people burned their draft cards during the Vietnam War. What finally pulled him out of his gloom was a call from his brother, who is two years older than he. "Your greatest treasures in life are your wife and your kids," Alan Dychtwald reminded him. And bit by bit, Dychtwald began to remember the ideals that launched him on his career...
...hopeless and have regressed since going to college. He pays me and my sisters to give him clothing of ours that he doesn’t like. I’ve gotten $50 for a pair of plaid golf pants that he desperately wanted to burn. Not a bad deal, but still a jerk move...