Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made flash cards with lighthearted and serious headlines and constructed a 3-D city out of paper that could be worn as a crown. She also discussed her plans to become a doctor and help those who "go in poverty, go without health care, and go on drugs...
That, I submit, is worth digging out your coupon book for. Harvard won't win the Ivy crown this year. But when Campbell, Leake, Gilmore, Rankin, Scott, freshman Kyle Snowden, junior Dan Morris and junior Kevin Fricka take the floor, we have excitement. Electricity. Drama...
...Mongolia. The region's conservative nature makes it harder to probe delicate issues, but that hasn't stopped the network. Despite Chinese reticence toward discussing politics, MTV Asia veejay Rita Tsang got Chinese and Hong Kong teens to express candid opinions in "Changing Hands," a segment about the crown colony's 1997 return to China, beamed by satellite and cable into about five million Chinese homes. " AIDS at Your Doorstep" covered the disease and safe sex -- a bold move in places like South Korea, where an official told the network "there is no AIDS because there are no gay people...
Some such assessment may have prompted Senator Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat, to write a surprising letter to Crown Butte's management. Calling himself a friend of mining, he nevertheless said he was unwilling to gamble a national treasure -- Yellowstone -- against short-term economic gain. Damage from a failed tailings pond, warned Baucus, could be "cataclysmic" and "irreversible." He didn't say what should be done with the tailings -- truck convoys to NIMBY ("not in my backyard") land are a possibility -- but if an on-the-mountain tailings pond is necessary, mine plans "should be abandoned...
Baucus' letter, though it may stiffen the spines of the regulating agencies, probably won't be enough to stop the mine. Noranda and Crown Butte may well get a permit to operate. A draft environmental-impact statement is expected by summer, shepherded by the Forest Service and the Montana State Lands Department, two agencies generally considered to be pro-development. The fact is that the outdated 1872 mining law, which treats the U.S. as if it were an underdeveloped country to be exploited, does not allow the agencies to say no to a permit. They can say only "yes, provided...