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...Forget that it looks like coal. And will burn like coal. It's now called "synthetic fuel." As such, the coal-like product, along with roughly 50 million tons of similar stuff from more than 50 similar plants in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and other states, is worth more than $1 billion a year in federal income-tax credits, a corporate giveaway protected by a bipartisan group of supporters in Congress. Those who have profited from the system range from fast-buck artists to giant corporations. They include one of the nation's largest hotel operators, a commodities trader barred...
...want to understand the future of gay politics, forget Fire Island, N.Y., and West Hollywood, Calif. Come instead to Cody, Wyo., at Yellowstone's doorstep, where a national gay-straight alliance, the Republican Unity Coalition (R.U.C.), was founded two years ago and counts former President Gerald Ford among its board members. Or visit Casper, Wyo.--hometown of Vice President Dick Cheney, who has warmly embraced his openly lesbian daughter Mary--where Guy Padgett III, a member of the city council, decided last week to come out publicly for the first time, in this article. Or drive through the Medicine...
...knows whether he'll show up in Stockholm on Dec. 10 for his Nobel. The protagonist of his latest novel, Elizabeth Costello, herself a postmodern novelist, might offer some clues as to his thoughts. On being picked for a literary prize, she says, "I should have asked them to forget the ceremony and send the check in the mail...
...band does have a knack for turning out energetic, compulsively danceable numbers. For all Ima Robot’s gimmickry, there’s a desperation to “Scream” and a coked-out lunacy to “Song #1” that make you forget that these Reaganomic moves have already been mimed by every “dance-punk” troupe this side of Park Slope...
...even Wilt Chamberlain blush. But I have a confession: her outfits make me want to do a cartwheel. If I had to die and be reincarnated, I probably would come back either as Jesus or as one of Paris Hilton’s handbags. So let’s forget about brunette Alice Walton, Wal-Mart heiress and divorcee, who probably spends her Friday nights at home eating Tostitos and watching Meg Ryan movies. It’s nothing but Dior and red carpets galore for the elder of the fabulous sisters Hilton...