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...last-ditch effort to avoid furtherpublicity, Bean-Bayog first offered to give upher license in a lengthy letter submitted to thestate board on Thursday. The unappealableresignation was a far stronger step than the boardwould likely have taken...
American storytelling is too important to be left so much to television. In American TV, a spirit only modestly gifted -- and sometimes flat stupid -- sits at the wheel of a trillion-dollar vehicle. The machine, being commercial, has that tendency to veer toward the ditch, seeking the least common denominator. The medium's technological prowess -- and its relentless, pervasive presence in the society -- imposes a responsibility that its writers and producers and directors probably should not have to bear. National Bard . . . and banality. Television does its work. But there are better ways to tell a story...
...delegation of Hurricane Hugo veterans from Charleston has already warned Dade County officials that the worst part is yet to come. "They document you to death. You have to document every nail on every roof," says Councilwoman Lombard sourly. "We had 600 miles of ditch to be cleaned. To document it, we had to walk it. Dade's got 200 miles of canals. Rest assured that FEMA will make them swim it to document it." Though Bush promised total reimbursement for storm cleanup efforts, the island city of Key Biscayne is already % squabbling with FEMA about reimbursement for early debris...
Though many scientists dismiss the notion of blowing up killer asteroids as a last-ditch attempt to find some role for nuclear weapons, they do think keeping an eye on runaway asteroids makes sense. This week, after several months of studying the issue, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will urge Congress to establish a tracking and detection system that could sound the alert if a big chunk of celestial rock starts heading this...
When more than 60% of Tatarstan's voters spurned the last-ditch appeals of Russian President Boris Yeltsin and said a fervent yes to sovereignty last week, many Russians saw an ominous parallel. Recalling Mikhail Gorbachev's futile struggle to preserve the motley amalgam of nations forged into the Soviet Union, they feared that their own Russian Federation might be heading for disintegration. "We are not only on the brink of a crisis," said Valeri Zorkin, chairman of the Constitutional Court, "but on the edge of an abyss...