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...evenly divided Senate, not just from Democrats but from a key bloc of at least eight Republicans--Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Bob Smith of New Hampshire, James Jeffords of Vermont, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois and Gordon Smith of Oregon--who have the power to defeat the bill. (Only three Democratic Senators, Louisiana's John Breaux and Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka, both of Hawaii, have come out so far in favor of drilling in the refuge.) Murkowski promises to attract antidrilling Senators to his cause. What remains unclear...
These are minor characters in the current indie film George Washington; they're also among the few adults in a movie about kids. But novice writer-director David Gordon Green doesn't consign them to the oblivion of stereotype. He respects all the creatures in his landscape, gets inside them, X-rays their souls. Then he takes pictures of them--images of a rapturous rural subtlety that recalls Terrence Malick's Badlands from 1973, two years before Green was born. By blending vernacular poetry, a pristine visual sense and a keen awareness of children's urges and fears...
...year-olds. Earnhardt's old-school cred might have come in handy for a sport that can expect trouble from its traditionalists the more successful it becomes, and for a true NASCAR believer there was always Earnhardt to cut the bitter taste of pretty-boy superstar Jeff Gordon...
...widespread perception that agricultural biotechnology is intrinsically inimical to the environment perplexes Gordon Conway, the agricultural ecologist who heads the Rockefeller Foundation. He views genetic engineering as an important tool for achieving what he has termed a "doubly green revolution." If the technology can marshal a plant's natural defenses against weeds and viruses, if it can induce crops to flourish with minimal application of chemical fertilizers, if it can make dryland agriculture more productive without straining local water supplies, then what's wrong with...
...GORDON LIDDY In a defamation suit, testified about Watergate for the first time (the case ended in a mistrial...