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...lands by corporations and sportsmen. The Administration plans to allow off-road vehicles back on 50,000 acres of the Imperial Sand Dunes, near San Diego. And later this month the Administration is likely to issue a rule clearing legal hurdles for coal mining companies, especially in Appalachia, to dump waste into streams after literally ripping the tops off of mountains...
...Musharraf's first step in reining in the ISI was to dump its chief, Ahmed. He and the President were once close friends and fellow plotters in the 1999 coup that brought Musharraf to power. But former comrades say that Ahmed experienced a battlefield epiphany up in the Himalayan peaks during the 1999 Kargil offensive against India. After that, he began to pursue his own radical Islamic agenda. At a Cabinet meeting, he once yelled at an official: "What do you know? You don't even go to prayers...
DIED. DEAN BUMPUS, 89, oceanographer who littered the Atlantic with tens of thousands of bottles to study the ocean's currents; in Woods Hole, Mass. He asked seabound friends and strangers to dump overboard boxfuls of bottles--each with a note asking its finder to send a postcard with the place and date of its discovery, in exchange for 50 [cents]. The project helped track weather and fish patterns; postcards are still coming...
...consumers by 2003. "I agree with Cuban that HDTV is inevitable, but it will take 10 years," predicts Gerry Kaufhold, In-Stat's principal analyst for digital TV. The savings of all-digital production will win out, especially because such influential directors as George Lucas have vowed to dump film. "By September 2003, most TV programs will be produced in HDTV, so sales of set-top boxes should kick into gear. By 2008, more than half of new sets sold will be high def," says Kaufhold...
...ability to contribute money directly to political campaigns, only large, wealthy corporations have money enough to hire lobbyists to promote their interests in Washington. With a ban on soft money contributions to campaigns, corporations will likely take the money they would have donated to the campaigns and instead dump it into their already large lobbying efforts, something the individual donor cannot...