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Presidents are expected to do good works at the end of their term, except perhaps for Gerald Ford, whose wife does that for him while he plays celebrity golf. But General Colin Powell is going through the process in reverse. Having postponed running for President, he is channeling his immense popularity into promoting volunteerism. He will serve as general chairman of the Presidents' Summit for America's Future, which kicks off with an Olympian opening ceremony in Philadelphia on April 27. Joining him on the steps of Independence Hall will be co-chairmen Bill Clinton and George Bush. (Jimmy Carter...
...doesn't even happen in amphibians, those wondrously regenerative little creatures, some of which can regrow a cut-off limb or tail. Try to grow an organism from a frog cell, and what do you get? You get, to quote biologist Colin Stewart, "embryos rather ignominiously dying (croaking!) around the tadpole stage...
...last week, what is known in military parlance as "the necklace" was mostly invisible to American civilians. The fleet of 150 warplanes, flying from 10 bases ringing the U.S., costs taxpayers about $1 million a day defending the nation's air sovereignty. In 1993 Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell recommended that the fleet be scrapped, saying, "We have a large number of planes that are still waiting for Soviet bombers to come over the North Pole." Last week there were fresh reasons for grounding the relic--two episodes in which it seemed as if U.S. warplanes were...
...COLIN'S NO TEST DUMMY...
...COLIN RIZZIO is the kind of guy seniors want around when they're sitting the SATs. While taking the math exam in Peterborough, New Hampshire, Rizzio thought one question seemed ambiguous. "I wrote it down afterward and discussed it with my teacher," he says. Rizzio was right. The algebra question asked students to compare two values, but neglected to specify that the key variable, a, was positive. Rizzio realized that a could be negative, creating the possibility of two answers. He E-mailed the College Board, which, for the first time in 15 years, admitted it had made a mistake...