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Attention, raccoons: head for the hills! Not since the 1950s, when Fess Parker sported a coonskin cap on the TV show Davy Crockett, have the long-tailed hats been so popular. Manhattan-based Jack Seifter and Sons, the largest U.S. manufacturer of the caps, has seen sales double in the past several months. During 1988 the company sold 500 of the authentic caps (retail price: $100) and 10,000 versions made with fake fur or rabbit pelt and a real ringtail...
...even halftime will provide a respite this year from Super Bowl hype. The mid-game spectacle -- featuring fireworks, 100 motorcycles and the world's largest card trick -- will be telecast, for the first time ever, in 3-D. Two commercials for diet Coke, one starring British singer George Michael, will also pop out at viewers in 3-D. A similar gimmick was tried early this month on three Fox stations during the Rose Parade, but this marks its network-TV debut...
REAGAN wrote his own chapter in the history of the cold war by overseeing the largest peacetime buildup of the armed forces in history. This buildup, however, has not necessarily led to greater security because of the great corruption and inefficiency which has festered in the Pentagon during his tenure. The scandals are numerous and widespread, ranging from the trading of top-secret information to mere collaboration between military officials and corporate contractors. Of course, nowadays, one can barely distinguish between...
Trump's latest and biggest and most complicated controversy centers on Manhattan's largest remaining piece of undeveloped land, the 76-acre principality bordering the Hudson River from 59 Street to 72 Street. Once a Penn Central railroad yard, it is now mostly weeds and debris. Trump, who bought it for $90 million in 1984, touts it as a $5 billion Trump City, "a concept that is going to be spectacular." It would feature a 150-story building, the world's tallest ("The city of New York should have the world's tallest building"), plus 7,600 luxury apartments...
Until recently, East-West distrust posed the largest hurdle to an effective ban. But in 1987, two years after Congress voted to end an 18-year moratorium on the American manufacture of chemical weapons, the Soviet Union acceded to U.S. demands for on-site "challenge inspections" to enforce a treaty. Today the larger obstacle is posed by Third World nations that are reluctant to give up what is known as the "poor man's atom bomb." Poison gases, after all, are cheap and easy to manufacture. "All a terrorist needs is a milk bottle of nerve gas," says a British...