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First he ordered a movie: a Sylvester Stallone vehicle called the The Specialist (cost: $2.95). Then, pressing the "fast-forward" button on his remote, he zipped ahead to what he said was his favorite scene -- Sharon Stone bending down to place flowers on the grave of the family she had lost to a mob bombing. He pressed "pause" and, like a gadget-crazed kid, began putting his multimillion-dollar toy through its paces. With The Specialist still on hold, he ordered a second movie, The Client, fast-forwarded to another favorite scene -- where Susan Sarandon is deciding whether...
Finally he returned to his movies to see whether the system remembered where he had left off. He selected The Specialist, and sure enough, there was Sharon Stone, still bending over that grave with the flowers in her hand. The room burst into applause...
...keep the bald eagle from facing extinction. Devastated by hunters and pollution, the birds were down to a few hundred breeding pairs in the lower 48 states when they became an endangered species in 1978. Now they are back (4,000-plus pairs) and only "threatened" -- out of grave danger but still off-limits to hunters...
...both visions of the Three Gorges -- the ideal and the real -- are about to be consigned to a watery grave. Later this month, Chinese Premier Li Peng will preside over the symbolic first pouring of concrete in what is intended to be the world's largest hydroelectric dam. Already, mammoth earthworks on both banks of the construction site have begun to constrict the flow of the river where it gushes forth from the Xiling Gorge. Over the next 14 years, if all goes as planned, first an earthen coffer dam and then a 200-yd.-high concrete spillway and adjacent...
Rare and beautiful books have been destroyed; what's done is done. Why should we be grim? Let's look on the bright side. Slashing up rare books, a treasure trove of knowledge, is a grave crime. But it's not as bad as slashing up people...