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Though the pursuit of economic power has been advocated by virtually every black leader from W.E.B. Du Bois to Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan, it was never as high on the black agenda as the righting of social wrongs by marches, boycotts and voter registration. The startling revelation of the Los Angeles riots was that even in a city with a black mayor and large numbers of black elected officials, black leaders were out of touch with their communities. While waging battles in the corridors of political power, few paid much attention to the underlying economic causes of the riots...
...they had set 2000 as the target year for a total ban. Now most countries expect to beat that deadline by many years because substitutes for CFCs are coming on line more rapidly than expected. The central player in the drama -- the unwitting villain turned hero -- was Du Pont, the American chemical company that invented CFCs, dominated global production and eventually led the way in developing substitutes. In 1990 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave Du Pont an award for stratospheric ozone protection...
Most of all, Home Improvement straddles the gender fence with the skill of a Cirque du Soleil aerialist. Network entertainment is largely driven by the female audience. Hard-edged action shows have all but disappeared from prime time; the great bulk of TV movies focus on women protagonists with either an empowering story to tell or a rapist on their trail; and most sitcoms have a female orientation, even when they ostensibly revolve around men. (Watch Major Dad get tamed by the women in his life...
...registration desk, the white tigers lounging below Roman columns in their glass cage and the dolphins in the seaquarium. His new Treasure Island casino, to open in October, will re-create at hourly intervals a cannon fight between two battleships and offer a permanent home to the elegant Cirque du Soleil. If Wynn gets his way, he will be permitted to build two casinos in Connecticut that will mix betting with moviegoing, ice skating and line dancing. And his next project in Las Vegas will envelop gambling inside a 160-acre resort that will include a golf course, intimate villages...
SHOW BUSINESS Cirque du Soleil's blowout astonishes anew...