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...Many green groups, which had fought for more than three years to get the polar bear listed, were unimpressed with the decision. "This changes nothing," says Carroll Muffett, deputy campaign director for Greenpeace. "They simultaneously acknowledge that global warming is likely to lead to polar bear extinction, while ruling out any action to address that problem." There had been hope that, as the bear was threatened because of global warming, its listing might offer a new way to fight fossil fuel projects in the U.S. Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate, Air and Energy program for the Center for Biological...
...fill stereotypes without seeming too shallow: Kate, who ambitiously pursues a career despite the loneliness it forces on her; Samantha, a pragmatist who decides she is not very talented and therefore should sacrifice herself to a husband who is; Holly, a kind person who lacks the drive to succeed; Muffett, who says she is not promiscuous, but hates going to bed alone; Leilah, who realizes she is not brilliant, but only "highly competent," and so moves to Iraq to make competent additions to the field of sociology; and Susie Friend, an over-enthusiastic air-head who loves school teas...
DAVID J.M. MUFFETT spent 17 years in Northern Nigeria and the Camerouns as an officer in the British Colonial Service. Now a research fellow at the Center for International Affairs, Mr. Muffett wrote this article after seeing his first football game--Harvard versus the University of Massachusetts. The game ended in a scoreless...
...gave an imitation of a Cockney lecturer on cookery; as he sucked in his "h's" he almost showed his gills. Blonde Betty Hutton, ballyhooed as "America's No. 1 Jitterbug," shook the props, finally brought down the house in a whirlwind song & dance entitled "Little Miss Muffett." Heady if not flooring, the revue's charm and occasional brilliance recalled the pleasant vintage of its predecessor One For The Money (TIME...
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