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...emptier, the housing costs lower, the culture more gentle--places where Martha Stewarts manque can slow down long enough to create the gilded topiaries they've dreamed about for years. In Wilmington, the emigres include a Boston doctor, a California silicon-chip engineer, a pharmaceutical-research scientist, a cop, a prosecutor, an artist looking for solitude and a carpet installer from suburban Dayton who chucked his job for one selling fertilizer in town...
KYOTO, Japan: Two contrary reports of the Clinton Administration's position on a global warming treaty surfaced Tuesday, so dramatically different you'd could be forgiven for thinking the U.S. is playing good cop-bad cop. The nice: a top Japanese newspaper claims the American delegation has sweetened its offer from reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2012 to reducing them 5 percent below 1990 levels. The nasty: Washington threatened to quit the talks if it could not reach an agreement the U.S. deemed "workable...
...might be expected that Al Gore will explain everything when he arrives next week ? except it was Gore himself who played bad cop Tuesday. "We are perfectly prepared to walk away from an agreement that we don't think will work," said the environmentalist Veep. Now that's a poker face...
...Good Cop, Bad Cop As temperatures rise at the Kyoto talks on a global warming treaty, the U.S. sends out mixed signals. Will a confusing combination of threats and promises give Washington the deal it seeks...
...several occasions and led a band called Myles and the Wild Ones. He had a pet alligator named Albert and "cried like a kid who'd lost his cocker spaniel" when Albert went off to the big swamp in the sky. He has one brother who is a cop and another who is a priest. ("I don't know where they went wrong," he says.) A self-professed martial-arts expert (who pronounces karate kah-dah-tay), he once escaped from prison by carving a bar of soap into "the most perfect-looking pistol you've ever seen...