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...global climate moves in broad historical cycles of warming and cooling tens of thousands of years long. Astronomical cycles, volcanoes, the interplay of deserts, oceans, cloud cover, even the methane produced by termites, can affect the density of the atmospheric greenhouse. Declares Chester Ropelewski, a climate specialist with the Maryland-based Climate Analysis Center: "It's still not clear whether this is the CO2 signal. The hard evidence isn't there...
...aggressive congressional liaison from 1981 to 1983. Before joining the White House staff last year, he worked for four years as a lobbyist at Timmons & Co., a Washington consulting firm. He usually arrives for work at 7:15 in the morning and tries to return to his suburban Maryland home by 8 in the evening to tuck in his two young children. When he isn't chain-smoking Marlboros, he is nibbling on pretzels from a huge jar on his desk. More than any other White House staffer since Michael Deaver, Duberstein has taken pains to develop a good relationship...
Thirsty West Virginians who plunk quarters into soda machines help finance a state medical school. Cigarette smokers in Washington State cough up $31.7 million a year to clean Puget Sound, while home buyers in Maryland pay transfer fees that help buy new parklands. This practice of earmarking taxes for specific government functions is growing steadily: at least 18 states have adopted targeted taxes since mid-1984, and dozens more such levies -- for schools, police, roads, drug-abuse treatment -- are pending in states from California to Michigan...
...never seemed to be able to win the big game [that would earn the team a spot in the tournament]," Felsen says. "Or, we'd win one big game and we wouldn't win two big games. We'd beat Maryland, then we'd lose to UMass...
...faced with the case of a 15-year-old from New York City who was caught carrying 50 bags of crack. In Detroit, Police Officer Paul Dunbar was buried after being fatally shot outside a suspected crack house by a 16- year-old. In Washington, elected officials from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia met to discuss the record number of drug-related killings and arrests in their region and propose stiffer penalties for selling drugs near schools. Said Washington Mayor Marion Barry: "No young person in this region is not at risk...