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American fans often approach Stubby Clapp as he's walking through the mall or pushing his cart down the grocery aisles. Many ask for his autograph. Some invite him to their children's birthday parties. They admire the intensity with which he plays second base, they love his congenial nature, and they cheer each time he does a back flip when he takes the field...
...been floated for a top job - Republicans spoke of him as a potential running mate for Bob Dole in 1996. But his long experience also means the environmental movement already has his dossier. A Kempthorne nomination "would embroil the administration in the worst of all conformation battles," says Phil Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust...
...doubt, to the more immediate threats preoccupying the nation. Green issues played almost no role in the midterm elections. "The environment is not going to be the defining issue in an election when terrorism, war and a limping economy are stacked on top of it," says Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust. And it's partly owing, surely, to the fact that conservationists have been crying wolf for too long: by opposing every tree-cutting and development project across the West, they have diluted their credibility on the big issues...
Knoxville (who uses his real name, P.J. Clapp, off-camera) has made a career for himself by damaging his body in spectacular ways. Until Ozzy Osbourne let cameras into his living room, Knoxville's show, Jackass--it's named for the idiocy of the stunts performed on it--was MTV's most popular program ever. In it, Knoxville and his skateboarding pals would go on adventures like shooting one another with stun guns, sitting in a well-used Porta Potti while it is flipped upside down and competing in a hard-boiled-egg-eating-and-barfing contest...
...hound Bush on Earth Day, April 22, for his air-pollution policies. Friends of the Earth, which had refrained from criticizing the President since Sept. 11, ended its silence this month by taking out full-page newspaper ads charging that Bush has put the earth up for sale. Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust, calls Bush "the worst President for the environment since the first Earth Day in 1970." Eric Schaeffer, who recently quit as chief of civil enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency because he believes the White House is undermining the agency's role as watchdog...