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...time of 14:03.50 in the finals was less than 16 seconds behind the winner, Alan Culpepper of the University of Colorado...
...same-sex marriages, co-sponsored by Bob Dole, Clinton would say "I do" and sign it. Presumably the move would show that he is not beholden to the homosexual community. The President chose to make the point just after the U.S. Supreme Court last week struck down a Colorado law nullifying civil-rights protection for homosexuals, a decision viewed as a significant victory for gay rights...
Waist-deep in the fast-running Gunnison River, below the towering rock cliffs of Colorado's Black Canyon, angler John Duncan drifted a tiny brown imitation caddis fly on the filmy surface of the crystal-green water. Suddenly a form rose from below and took the hook. As Duncan played in his leaping, twisting catch, he could tell by its green back, silvery sides and blazing red stripe that he had hooked a rainbow trout. Then Duncan saw something else: a jet-black discoloration on the fish's tail and rear section. The trout was clearly diseased. "I was shocked...
Duncan was lucky; he caught and released several more fish that afternoon. Other trout aficionados will make the pilgrimage to Colorado's and Montana's world-renowned wild-trout streams this fishing season and come away skunked. The cause: the tail-blackening "whirling disease," a mysterious and usually fatal ailment that is spreading rapidly through prized trout populations of the Rocky Mountain West. In Colorado, where the rainbow is the mainstay of a $1 billion-a-year game-fishing industry, the disease has infected hatcheries, devastated trout on a prime stretch of the Colorado River and spilled into...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a major ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a Colorado constitutional amendment that bans laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination. The 6-3 ruling Monday is the biggest legal victory to date for gay-rights activists, and signals a major shift by the court since its last major gay-rights ruling. In 1986, the Court was blatantly contemptuous of a constitutional challenge to Georgia's sodomy law. "This is a huge decision," TIME correspondent Wendy Cole reports, adding that gay-rights groups had been braced for a defeat. "It will be very interesting to see how local municipalities...