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...photographer, became an environmentalist after he saw the wild land in Richardson, Texas, he had hiked as a boy paved with malls and condos. Charles Hurwitz, 54, raided and leveraged his way to an '80s-style fortune, acquiring a random bag of companies, including Kaiser Aluminum and the Pacific Lumber Co. From his Houston headquarters, Hurwitz seems puzzled that other people care about some big trees Pacific owns in Humboldt County, California...
...that story was changing. David Kendall, the Clinton's personal attorney, announced that the second account had shown a previously unreported gain of $6,498 on trades in copper, sugar, wheat and lumber futures. The Clintons, he said, would immediately pay $3,315 in back taxes and $10,134 in accrued interest to the U.S. Treasury and $514 in taxes and $652 in interest to the state of Arkansas. Employing a phrase that became notorious during Watergate, John Broder of the Los Angeles Times wryly asked if the previous explanation had become "inoperative." John Podesta, the White House staff secretary...
...silent, dragging scene changes. The spotlight could stand to slow down a bit; it gets dizzying during an Act I chase scene. And while we're on the subject of running...it's nice to make use of the whole theater, but when sweaty, panting men in drag periodically lumber up and down the aisles, it kind of detracts from the mystique...
Maybe I don't remember it correctly. My father might have picked the planks up at the Somerville Lumber outlet and lugged the wood home in his pickup. He could have been sanding them down in the garage for all I know. It took him forever to refurbish and nail the planks into the walls of our cold spare room. But after a year and a half, for my 12th Christmas, my parents gave me a new bedroom, a brand-new, wood-paneled room with a skylight and electric heating and wall-to-wall carpeting...
...estimates that to eliminate it completely from water in that state alone would cost $3.7 billion. Is that a reasonable investment for preventing perhaps a score of deaths? Is $711 million per case of cancer too much to pay for the elimination of pentachlorophenol, a fungicide used in the lumber industry, or $80 billion per case too much to get rid of alachlor, an agricultural chemical...