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...into shotgun shells. They are later fired into the air during a ceremony in the woods for family and friends. If you're an ocean lover, Eternal Reefs Inc. in Atlanta will place your ashes inside an artificial reef for $850 to $3,200. Celestis, a company based in Houston, will launch your ashes into Earth's orbit. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and Timothy Leary are among the 100 people who have taken this stellar ride. The cost: $5,300. Spring for $12,500, and you can get shot toward the moon...
...Winners RONALD REAGAN Office building, then airport, now aircraft carrier named for Gipper. What next, Illinois? JUDY GARLAND Over the Rainbow named No. 1 song of the century. Drag queens everywhere rejoice WHITNEY HOUSTON Pop diva's pot record in Hawaii gets wiped clean. Run for Governor in the works...
Schools are cracking down nonetheless, on the theory that lightning can strike anywhere. Cops are a fixture in many schools (Houston Independent School District alone employs a stunning 177 officers), and so are keycards for entry. And all over the nation, schools have installed phone lines for anonymous tips; administrators must spend hours following up on the calls. "We push the staff almost to the breaking point to investigate every one," says Tom Miller, a school official in Port Huron, Mich. At some schools--including Columbine, understandably--the tips lead automatically to a police investigation, even when they are benign...
...which the Palestinian refugees were created in 1948. At that time, the U.N. partition plan divided the land into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jews accepted, the Arabs did not, resulting in the displacement of some of the Palestinians. ADAM WIENER, INFORMATION OFFICER Consulate of Israel Houston...
...preps for the next round of talks, to be held in Bonn in mid-July. Bush the First helped pioneer credit trading in 1990, when he signed legislation that capped power plants' sulfur dioxide emissions--the main ingredient in acid rain--but allowed the plants to swap credits. And Houston-based Enron, an energy trader whose chairman, Ken Lay, was a prominent W. campaign adviser, stands to be a huge player in any such market. So if it's good for business, Bush the ex-businessman won't need that big a push...