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...once the questions began, Bush looked like a 5-year-old losing a battle with an ice-cream cone on a summer day. His sale of stock as a director of Harken Energy in 1990, a once scrutinized deal that had faded into obscurity, was now alive in a much less forgiving environment. Bush dumped $848,000 worth of Harken stock two months before the company announced a $23.2 million loss; he was 34 weeks late in filing a form the Securities and Exchange Commission required to record the sale. Old news, the President said, noting that the SEC investigated...
...astonishing images beaming down from the Hubble Space Telescope just got better. The first pictures from a new high-resolution camera, installed in March, arrived last week, and they are out of this world. This photo of a stellar nursery is a close-up of the Cone Nebula, a cloud of gas and dust some 2,500 light-years from Earth. From top to bottom, the celestial pillar shown here spans 2.5 light-years--3,000 times the size of our solar system. Stars are being born within the cloud as dense knots of gas collapse and flare with nuclear...
...center of the gallery’s floor rests buildings constructed of white clay and covered in salt; their stupa-like shapes suggest mosques and holy buildings that reach towards the sky. In the center is the crown jewel of the structures, a four-stepped platform with a cone-shaped peak rising from...
...Saturday night the restaurant was pleasantly bustling without being too noisy. The place has an energetic yet laid-back atmosphere, with a lively and eclectic clientele consisting mostly of people from the neighborhood. A large, adult party gathered around a long table, donning cone-shaped hats to merrily celebrate a birthday...
...showplace for the avant garde. (Tel. 20 20 93 0; Open daily 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.) Friedrichstrasse is a window shopper's paradise, with stores clustered around a three-building complex called the Fried-richstadt Passagen. At one end is the striking Galeries Lafayette, with an immense glass cone through its heart and a superb food center in the basement, where you can catch a reasonably-priced lunch of oysters or entrecote...