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...year does not make a trend, since temperatures naturally vary from year to year. But the Americans, at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, pointed out that the new data mean that the seven warmest years since 1880 have all occurred in the past 11 years. On average, the 1980s were about .6 degrees C (1 degrees F) warmer than the 1880s, while 1990 was .7 degrees C (1.25 degrees F) warmer. That may not sound like much, but a mere 5 degrees C (9 degrees F) rise was enough to bring the earth out of the last...
...where it's not the humidity but the egg-frying heat that dogs people. Symington was virtually unknown until he waged a state-of-the-art zoning fight, the first to use television ads. He may see the race as a grudge match against telegenic former Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard, a Democratic candidate who fought his high-rise development. "Goddard is all glitzy veneer, all ambition, the John Lindsay of Arizona," says Symington. "Remember how New York went off the cliff...
Compared with the Republican primary, the Democratic race looks benign. The favorite is Goddard, a three-term mayor whose father Sam was once Governor. With his Jay Rockefeller looks, Jack Kennedy charm and squeaky-clean politics (he now refuses PAC money), Goddard has Democratic presidential hopeful written all over him. This being Arizona, the unmarried Goddard was forced to campaign for mayor by announcing, "I am not gay." A Phoenix newspaper ran a front-page interview with various former girlfriends attesting to his honesty on the point...
...line with last June's auction of the most expensive piece of furniture ever sold: a $12.1 million desk. The mahogany masterpiece was no curlicued Versailles settee or crested English bureau. It was a stately secretary of distinctly American block-and-shell design, crafted in 1760 by the Goddard-Townsend cabinetmakers of Newport, R.I. "For years, Europeans have given us an inferiority complex," says furniture dealer Harold Sack, 78, who bought the desk for an anonymous client, believed to be Texas billionaire Robert Bass. "To finally see American furniture taken as an important art form is enormously gratifying...
...three sons in the business today, started his dealership in 1905. He found authentic pieces for the Fords and Du Ponts, who became major collectors in the 1920s. In time, their priceless collections were turned over to museums, where exquisite examples of Early American | furniture -- including the nine other Goddard-Townsend desks known to be in existence -- now reside...