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Secretary of the Interior-designate Bruce Babbitt, 54, a former Governor of Arizona...
...feared that the Russian President was forsaking the country's radical reform path altogether. Among the key players from the Gaidar team retaining their posts are Deputy Prime Ministers Alexander Shokhin and Anatoli Chubais. Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev was also kept on. No changes were announced in the key Interior, Defense and Security ministries...
That suit was unexpectedly settled last week when the Interior Department agreed to add about 400 species (mostly plants in Hawaii, California, the desert Southwest and Pacific Northwest) over the next four years -- roughly half as many as the 750 species now protected. The plaintiffs, including Friends of Animals and Defenders of Wildlife, applauded the move. But why the change of heart? One theory: the Administration believes the Endangered Species Act is a political nightmare, and the more species on the list, the bigger the headache for Bill Clinton...
...Life Is Not an Epic. When David Lean died, did he take the secret of epic movies with him? Lean knew that life is full of dramatic events, but it's what's inside that counts; the enthralling vistas matter less than the interior vision. That lesson is lost on Hollywood, whose idea of epic biography is a story of a big shot (Gandhi, Bugsy Siegel, Malcolm X) who got shot. Violent death is meant to lend tragic grandeur...
Acting Nairobi bureau chief Andrew Purvis, who inherited Wilde's mongrel dogs, Whiskey and Pee Wee, along with his old job, has been in Mogadishu long enough to watch the city go from outright anarchy to "a place that almost feels safe." Bringing peace to Somalia's interior, however, may take some doing. In Baidoa, Purvis saw a young Somali no more than eight years old waltz up to a relief worker who was carrying a bag of cheese-flavored chips. "The kid had an AK-47 draped over his shoulder, its muzzle almost dragging in the dust," says Purvis...