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Some towns, and a few wealthy, environmentally conscious citizens like actress Andie MacDowell, are signing over the rights to some of their property to nonprofit land trusts, thus ensuring that scenic vistas and traditional uses will be preserved. Last year the Montana Land Reliance helped set up 39 such trusts, up from just eight in 1990. And if Clinton manages to get away on vacation (as a guest of Senator Jay Rockefeller), he'll be staying near land the Rockefeller family donated to the U.S. for preservation. Giving away land may prove to be the ultimate way of keeping...
...this comes on top of another effort to cut off the revenue flow to the enemies of the revolution. For months now, liberal lobbyists and nonprofit organizations have been charging that the Republicans are trying to "defund the left" by challenging the tax-exempt status of organizations that both receive tax subsidies and lobby Congress. Such reform might be thought to hit conservative groups like the N.R.A. just as hard as Planned Parenthood and the Sierra Club, but conservative groups actually tend to rely more on private donations and are not so dependent on government funds as liberal groups...
Three Harvard students volunteering with WorldTeach, a nonprofit organization based at Harvard, have left for China, where they will be teaching English in a public high school on the outskirts of Shanghai...
...government training and education programs are scaled back, aspiring workers will have to rely on the private sector. Training Inc. is a national nonprofit group that helps people polish their job skills. This has given counselors like Bev Schroeder a window on people's dreams and expectations. She works at the Indianapolis branch. "When I do presentations, I'm struck by the number of people who ask, 'How much will I make at the end?' " she says. "I talk about process. They say, 'I can't take $7.50 an hour. I need at least $30,000 a year...
...National Rifle Association said the IRS had begun an aggressive audit of its finances. And Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson launched a series of hearings on the political and commercial practices of the American Association of Retired Persons, accusing the seniors group of straying from "any reasonable description of a nonprofit organization...