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Myth # 2: Republicans are eager for a Powell candidacy. As early as 1983, insiders were throwing around Powell's name as a vice presidential candidate. The Quest for the Presidency, 1992 details how members of George Bush's reelection team attempted to persuade Den Quayle to step aside for Powell. And earlier this year, as reported in Newsweek, Bush and other prominent Republicans paid a visit to Powell's Virginia home in the hopes that he would make a firm commitment to the Republican Party with the idea that he would be offered the vice presidential nomination from Dole...
...hear its critics talk, W.R. Grace & Co., based in Boca Raton, Florida, is nothing less than a den of international pirates. Its crime: patenting a pesticide made from seeds of the Indian neem tree. "Genetic colonialism," thunders the self-proclaimed scientific watchdog Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, who is leading a coalition of 200 scientific, academic and farm organizations from 37 countries that filed a petition last week to have the patent revoked. Not only is Grace's pesticide based on an ancient and widely known extraction process, the coalition claims, but it will force Indian...
Meeting a need she discovered, Raftery is leading one of the supermarket tours she began eight years ago as an extension of her role as cooking teacher and unofficial den mother to the large Japanese expatriate community here. Having raised three children, Raftery, 37, has accumulated a practical knowledge of middle-American cuisine and cleaning products that she now cheerfully dispenses to her students, most of them house wives whose husbands commute to work in Manhattan...
...biggest hit: an arcade game called Ooze) but left the industry deciding it had "too much gratuitous violence." The idea of gambling over the Internet came to him last year in a moment he describes as an epiphany. According to Eugene, he was "chosen" to open the first gambling den on the electronic frontier. He is convinced that in another life he was the founder of New York City's famous Stork Club...
...Den. at San Antonio...