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...There seemed to be some progress in 2000, when President Clinton signed an agreement allowing Navy and Marine bombing exercises to continue until 2003, but only using inert weapons and scaling back exercises whenever possible. The President also ordered a Health and Human Services analysis of the islander?s health complaints. Those results are due soon...
More engaging, because more romantic and genuinely beautiful, are the big accretions of small, white, open cubes, which look like the Platonic idea of ziggurats or ideal cities and recall LeWitt's interest in real-world architecture. Most of the mural-size "wall drawings" on display are fairly inert; their main characteristic is a sort of soothing, high-minded laboriousness that stands in for energy of conception. Still, their depiction of colored solids often has the decorative charm of the geometrical illustrations in old emblem books, and the color, saturated and speckled, is a big step up from the normally...
Dull is fine but not inert, as his detractors charge. While 63% of Californians support the Governor overall, according to the latest polls by the Public Policy Institute of California, 62% disapprove of the way he is handling the energy crisis. He recalls being told by his old boss, former Governor Jerry Brown, that "there will come a moment when there will be a prison break or some other crisis by which the administration will be remembered, so the challenge is to be ready for that moment. This is my moment to provide leadership...
...possible that all these years the conservatives were really using "activism" to mean, literally, active? Could that be why Justice Thomas has been singled out for praise? Is it possible that the judges conservatives most admire are nonactivist to the point of being, well, inert? Or maybe not there...
...Turtles, inert and uncuddly, lag behind whales and pandas in the race for wildlife-conservation publicity. So they're lucky to have Peter Pritchard as a cheerleader. Born in England and educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where he earned his Ph.D. in zoology, Pritchard, 56, has done superb scientific research. But even more impressive is his campaign to make turtles as popular as Mickey Mouse. Appropriately, his new, privately funded Chelonian Research Institute, for the study and preservation of turtles, is located in Oviedo, Fla., just a half-hour drive from Disney World. Pritchard shares observations...