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...Patricia Schroeder (D-Colo.) said last year that debating flag burning laws is like "chasing a gnat around the light bulb as the planet is burning down." If a few key legislators have their way, Congress this summer is going to try chasing that gnat all over again--and this time, it may actually catch...
Popularized in France in the mid-1980s, the indoor version of the sport is catching on in the U.S., both on campus and off. Climbing walls at health clubs in Atlanta and Fort Collins, Colo., are doing landslide business. Seattle's Vertical Club, the U.S.'s first rock gym, built in 1987, now has some 400 members who pay $225 a year to scale its heights. The reason for success, according to Chris Grover, president of Entre Prises, the U.S. affiliate of a French wall manufacturer, is the result of removing real climbing's dangers. "Indoor cliffs appeal...
...certainly was a hairy issue. Supporters of a ban on the sale of furs in plush Aspen, Colo., pelted their opponents with charges of indifference to animals. Those opposed bristled back that the matter was not a proper concern of government. Last week a record 71% of the town's 3,739 registered voters cast ballots in the referendum. The result: 1,701 to 898 in favor of continued sales...
Screenplay by Colo Tavernier O'Hagan and Claude Chabrol...
...Says Barker, who resigned last year as host of the Miss Universe pageant because contestants wore fur: "We want people wearing fur to be embarrassed when they walk into a restaurant. Fur is obscene, fur is cruel, and fur is archaic." Two weeks ago, the city council in Aspen, Colo., voted to put on the ballot an initiative that would ban the sale of fur in the trendy resort town. Says Aspen Mayor Bill Stirling: "As a community, we don't want to earn our sales- tax dollars from cruelty to animals...