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...produce 22,000 bbl. of oil a day), oppose the establishment of a park. Says George Tallchief, principal chief of the tribe: "It will make it prohibitive for independent oil producers to come in and drill." Local ranching interests are also unhappy about losing valuable grazing land, which they insist is already in good hands. "This is my heritage here," says Rancher Mark Freeman Jr. "Who in the hell do you think has kept this prairie in the shape it's in today...
Several years ago iconoclastic Director Peter Sellars updated and transposed the locale of Handel's Orlando when he set it at the Kennedy Space Center and on Mars. This approach, however, amounts to apologizing for the libretto. A better way is to insist on fidelity to both spirit and source. The trick is to get the audience to suspend its disbelief and to care as passionately about the amours of Sappho, Princess Iphise and the god Mercury...
...Supreme Court has recently been willing toact as if nothing has changed since 1787 whendealing with separation of powers issues," saidRichard H. Fallon, assistant professor of law."They insist on tracing back to the intent of theConstitution's writers," he said
...counter capsules has been a fast-growing, profitable business (1985 sales: $1.5 billion), but the market is suddenly shrinking. Within the past five months, both Bristol-Meyers and Johnson & Johnson, the maker of Tylenol, have stopped selling any of their nonprescription drugs in capsule form. While most other manufacturers insist that they have no current intention of walking away from this market, consumers and producers across the U.S. are pondering the uncertain fate of the still popular product...
...swelling, are common. Permanent brain damage, according to one study, occurs only once in about every 300,000 inoculations, death even less frequently. Researchers suspect that these severe complications--which can include convulsions, shock, loss of muscle control and fever--are caused by bacterial toxins. Still, most doctors insist that the shots are worth the risks. Martin Smith, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, calculates that the chances of suffering serious damage from whooping cough are ten times greater than having damaging side effects from the vaccine. Says Dr. Peter Patriarca of the CDC's immunization division: "There...