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...late night in September. David Letterman is on CBS, with the same bits he perfected (but maybe didn't patent) on his NBC show: running animals through stupid tricks and Calvert De Forest -- Larry "Bud" Melman to you -- through the humiliation gauntlet. Chevy Chase is on Fox, reprising the Weekend Update routine from his early stint on NBC's Saturday Night Live. So what does that leave for beleaguered NBC and its corporate parent, General Electric? To stick with the lunch-pail charisma of Jay Leno at 11:30. To hope that Conan O'Brien (Dave's 12:30 replacement...
...here and count the stupid hours and the days and mark them off a dumb calendar as to my last moment, my last hour, my last kiss." Roberta sits in the forest-green dining room, sipping herbal tea out of a mug decorated with little footprints, hearts and the words IT'S A GIRL. How is she holding herself together? "People can't understand," she says. "They think I'm falling to pieces nonstop in front of Jessi. But I would never do that." And then Robby DeBoer breaks down, heaving and weeping. The cries are not plaintive, not whimpers...
...Supreme Court. "They're going to walk away just like Michigan did and say, 'Wish we could have done something but there's nothing to do because our laws dictate otherwise.' I wonder if they could take their little two-year-old kids and walk into a black forest and just leave the child and walk away . . . And not feel the pain . . . How not to feel the pain...
...White House. Said the President: "We have to play the hand we were dealt." In April he convened the much ballyhooed "Timber Summit" in Portland, where he promised to break the gridlock. Clinton set up three teams to tackle the problem, of which perhaps the most important was the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment Team, or FEMAT. Dressed in jeans, flannel shirts and running shoes, the 37 members , could look out from Portland's U.S. Bancorp Tower and see the Willamette River and Mount Hood in the distance. Their mission was simplified in the slogans that often flitted across their computer...
...early on, team members were dumbstruck by the complexity of their task. Joe Lint, a wildlife biologist with the Bureau of Land Management, recalls discussing the forest's 20,000 species of insects, spiders and other arthropods: "I sat there saying to myself, 'Wow, this thing is so big and complex, I have no idea how this might all fit together.' It put us in a different frame of mind." Out of the assemblage of foresters, biologists, economists, plant and fish experts, geomorphologists, hydrologists and social scientists emerged perhaps the most sophisticated conservation analysis to date. A pioneering effort, says...