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...Environment ruled against Perot's plan to build a dock and boathouse in front of one of his houses, because "substantial dredging" would be needed to bring his boat close to shore. Faced with that denial, Perot's contractors realized that any similar request for permission to cut a channel in a nearby coral reef would probably be nixed as well. A week later, without filing for a permit, Perot's construction team blew up a section of the reef near his house...
...America to promote his new book, The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World. Published in April, the 399-page, lavishly illustrated volume is climbing best-seller lists from Washington to Los Angeles. Together with a five-hour television series that will be aired on the Discovery Channel in August, the book is Fuentes' answer to Kenneth Clark's Civilisation, which ignored the Spanish- speaking world. Aiming to show that the Latin legacy is as rich as anything in the Anglo-Saxon tradition, Fuentes has condensed five centuries of Hispanic experience into a multimedia saga that ranges...
...American TV. It is a terrible shame. At a time when programmers are searching for unusual fare to attract bored viewers, would it be too outlandish for one network to devote a couple of hours on a slow summer evening to a prizewinning TV movie from Europe? With cable channels scrounging to recycle the most obscure American shows from the '50s and '60s, has no one thought of picking up a few choice morsels from overseas? In a cable universe that will soon grow to 100 or 150 channels of programming, where is the International Channel...
...also collaborated with the League of Women Voters on a user-friendly guide to voter registration in all 50 states, which will be distributed at events sponsored by the channel between now and November. In August MTV will air a weekend-long telethon, soliciting registrations instead of money. Viewers will be invited to phone in and speak to celebrities about where they can sign up to vote. "Kids emulate rock stars in everything else," says Soren, "so why not in this...
...sponsored by People for the American Way. Its classroom instruction method, in which teachers devote a social studies period to the electoral process and register students right in the classroom, is based on a Dade County, Fla., program that registers around 12,000 high school students every year. Meanwhile Channel % One, the advertiser-supported television service that is provided to public and private schools, is planning a mock election in which its 7.1 million viewers, assisted by a teacher-preparation guide, can vote for their favorite candidates a week before the rest of the nation makes its choice...