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...crusade or its impact. His updated rhetoric provides a paper-thin layer of respectability to a noxious creed that appeals to alienated white youths like Shawn Slater, whom Robb is grooming as a future Klan leader. An ex-skinhead, Slater now heads the Klan's chapter in Aurora, Colo. Like his mentor, Slater has mastered the art of attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January, he orchestrated a Klan rally on Martin Luther King Day that turned violent when anti-Klan protesters threw bottles, overturned a police car and battled police...
...Doctors: A Physician's Explosive Account of Women's Medical Treatment -- and Mistreatment -- in America Today (Atlantic Monthly Press; $20.95). Male domination of the medical profession has bred a host of abuses, says Smith, 49, a medical maverick who upset colleagues by starting the first HMO in Colorado Springs, Colo., and now acts as a consultant on national health policy. Research on heart disease and cancer, as well as on the benefits of various therapies, has centered almost exclusively on men. "We've got a body of knowledge that doesn't apply to women," laments Smith. More than...
Anticipating a surge in "distance learning," cable entrepreneur Glenn Jones in 1987 founded the Mind Extension University. Based in Englewood, Colo., it beams college-credit courses to 36,000 students across the country, under the aegis of such established institutions as the University of Minnesota and Penn State. Last fall a branch of the University of Maryland began offering the nation's first four-year bachelor of arts program via Mind Extension; 60 students are enrolled. "Today's students are often working," explains Paul Hamlin, the Maryland dean in charge of the program. "They need to be able to compete...
...Sunday, Feb. 16, board members got the first calls summoning them to a special meeting in New York City. On Thursday, they voted 21 to 1 to bounce Nicholas, who had pointedly declined to attend. Rejecting an offer of a company plane that would pick him up in Vail, Colo., Nicholas chose instead to continue a family skiing vacation and sent his so-called resignation to New York...
...enthusiasm was not enough to propel the dream into reality. "Wind developed a reputation for not working, and it had the stigma of a tax scam," says Robert Thresher, the wind-program manager at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. Eventually the problems caused power companies to back away. And by 1985, when the tax credits expired, the remaining wind towers began looking more and more like monuments to a lost cause...