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...Council of Economic Advisers. When a story focuses on one of them, you always have to talk to the other three." The prune focus of this week's story is CEA Chairman Feldstein. To get a feeling for the man and his ideas, Beckwith interviewed Feldstein at length in his corner office in Washington's Old Executive Office Building...
...rafted 3,700 miles down the Amazon River, walked the 1,750-mile length of Japan, and traveled 7,500 miles by dogsled from Greenland to Alaska, a harrowing, 18-month journey during which he was forced to kill several of his ailing sled dogs for food. Narrow escapes were plentiful. In 1978, when he became the first man to reach the North Pole by trekking alone across the frozen Arctic Ocean, a polar bear raided his camp and mauled his sleeping...
...must impose punishment from a narrow range of options set by the legislature or some administrative body, and an offender must serve all of the sentence, minus time off for good behavior. Gone are the old "one-to 20-year" sentences, which left parole boards to decide the real length of a term...
...with computers in handling personnel matters. Beyond that, he wanted to talk about how the department made its assignments, decided on transfers and dealt with other personnel business. After arranging the proper security clearance, Davis showed the white-haired visitor around the department and talked with him at some length. "It was clear that he was a man of some importance, because he was not lacking in presence," Davis recalls. "He was quiet but attentive, and he asked good questions...
They were conventional in length, height and weight (two-man bobs may not weigh more than 858 lbs., including both crewmen). But the sled bodies were made in one piece, rather than in two as are other bobs, and they were much narrower than normal, with dramatic fins that jutted from each side of their noses and flanks. These allowed the sleds to meet the letter if not the spirit of the regulation that requires a minimum width of 34 in. Other sleds also have stubby finlike projections at the nose to stabilize the machine, and while those...