Word: california
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Other remarkable Bell shows have involved such subjects as a 1957 Chevrolet that "just fell out of the sky" in Long Beach, California; a farmer who threw machinery and dead cows into a hole on his property and claimed that they "never hit bottom"; and an interview with Richard Hoagland, who claims the government is suppressing news of alien structures on the Moon and Mars...
...executives met with a Gore aide and presidential counselor Thomas ("Mack") McLarty, who is Clinton's special envoy on Latin American trade issues. Chile, the executives warned, would probably take delivery on new jets by 2000, an election year, when Gore could ill afford to see jobs lost in California, Florida, Texas and Ohio, where the Falcon and Hornet are built...
...briefly at the American base in McMurdo Sound this year. The Wordie Ice Shelf on the Antarctic peninsula has all but collapsed, signaling a retreat of the northern limit of permanent ice on the continent. And in the 1970s a portion of the sea-ice apron as big as California disappeared for three years...
Since 1968, Gerald Kooyman of the University of California at San Diego has studied emperor penguins, beguiling flightless birds that are dependent on Antarctic sea ice. The penguins need 255 days of sea ice in order to complete the cycle from egg laying to the stage when fledglings are hardy enough to begin their wanderings through the southern ocean. Typically, the young birds jump into the water only two weeks or so before the ice breaks up. This year, says Kooyman, the ice near Franklin Island broke up in mid-December, two weeks before the fledglings were ready to embark...
...cost controls is now being driven by too many, in some cases to keep shareholders happy with fat profits. "In the fee-for-service days, there was a very perverse system that rewarded doctors for doing way too much medicine," says Dr. David Lawrence, chairman and ceo of California's huge, and nonprofit, Kaiser Permanente. "Now we have a system creating incentives to do too little." Dr. Alan Fogelman, head of UCLA's Department of Medicine, thunders, "People who are sick will be allowed to die because it's the best economically...