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...nation already divided by numerous issues?abortion, the death penalty, affirmative action, family values, marriage, national security, welfare, the environment, taxes and so forth. Bush naturally takes a position on each issue, just as every other citizen does. He cannot conceivably support all sides. Anne-Marie Shaffer Palm Coast...
...after a violent police crackdown on thousands of demonstrators on Friday; in the capital, Mal?. The administration of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom imposed a curfew following the incident, which was sparked by demands for the release of five political detainees. Gayoom, who has ruled these islands off the Indian coast for 26 years, is accused by human-rights groups of condoning political repression and torture...
...mystics talking about quantum physics. It has a title that will be a challenge to typesetters across the country: What tHe #$*! Do wE (k)now!? (fans simply call it "What the Bleep?"). Yet this idiosyncratic indie film has become a sleeper hit in theaters up and down the West Coast, earning a surprising $1.7 million since February. Next month it will roll out on more than 100 screens nationwide...
Passions in the fish industry run just as high. Imported shrimp, much of it farmed in Thailand and China, has bankrupted fishermen along the U.S. Gulf Coast. Alaska fishermen, who catch only wild salmon at sea (fish farms are prohibited in the state), are being hammered by farm-raised salmon from Chile and Canada. "In 1988 I got $1 a pound for pink salmon. Now I get 7¢," says Scott McAllister, steering his boat past Alaska's Glacier Bay. He believes labels will help. "[People] will think it's cool to buy Alaska salmon from a wild and grizzly...
...ahead from Iceland's Supreme Court in January, after four years of legal wrangling over the environmental impact assessment submitted by Landsvirkjun. Alcoa's Fjardaál smelting plant, for which ground was recently broken in Reydarfjördur, a port on the country's largest east-coast fjord, will be Landsvirkjun's principal electricity customer. Excess capacity generated by the Kárahnjúkar power plant will be passed on to the national grid. The whole enterprise, says Arnalds, is "not only to create jobs locally, but to create national wealth." Iceland has an abundance of hydroelectric power...