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Last week Bush introduced a new "Clean Skies" initiative that he said "will constitute the most significant step America has ever taken--has ever taken--to cut power-plant emissions." But environmentalists didn't bite. "His claim is ludicrous," says Philip Clapp, president of the National Environmental Trust. "What he's really proposing is a massive relaxation of the Clean Air Act." Sources tell TIME that Christie Whitman, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, fought for tougher restrictions but was rebuffed. The EPA's own numbers say the Clean Air Act left alone will reduce power-plant emissions nearly twice...
Which is to say, you have entered the environs of Knoxville--as in Jackass star Johnny Knoxville, the alias of P.J. Clapp, 29, who started on the road to fame by sending MTV a video in which he had himself gassed with pepper spray and shot with a Taser. (He and MTV agreed not to air a segment of the video in which he put on a bulletproof vest and shot himself.) And if you're nonplussed--and maybe a tad defensive about being nonplussed ("But I'm cool! I liked Beavis and Butt-Head!")--Knoxville is doing...
...measure of Chatwin's flamboyance that, scarcely 11 years after his death, he has already inspired two indelible biographies. Susannah Clapp's With Chatwin, of two years ago, was as sleek and elliptical and unorthodox as its subject, and gave us the man as he looked from across an editor's desk. Shakespeare, a stylish novelist with a gift for exotic locales (in the Acknowledgments he cites sources in 22 countries, from Benin to Nepal), provides every other face. The figure who emerges was a deeply solitary soul, hiding behind his exaggerated performances but genuinely driven by a vision...
Average students pay the price. At Halls Middle School in Knoxville, half the students in Gay Clapp's sixth-grade science class last year were classified as having "special needs." One day last spring, after giving her class a plant diagram to color, Clapp watched as a group of boys got up to hang out at the pencil sharpener, and other students wandered the room for supplies; for a few moments, all order broke down. "It's overwhelming," says Clapp, who has taught for 39 years. "Dealing with this many kids and this many different needs wears...
Pulitzer Prizes are awarded to James Michener's novel, Tales of the South Pacific, for fiction, Margaret Clapp for her biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow, Bernard De Voto for his historical work, Across the Wide Missouri. The Nobel Prize for Literature went to T.S. Eliot '10, well-known for his poetry collections, including The Waste Land (1922) and Ash Wednesday...