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...parents' home in Kennebunkport, Gov. Bush called the scaled-back proposal a victory for "Florida's fight to protect our coastline" and told Bush the words he's going to be hearing a lot for the next few years: not in my back yard. "Any lease sales that do occur in the 181 area" - a patch of energy-rich ground in the derrick-free eastern part of the gulf - "will occur off the coast of Alabama, not Florida," he said...
...rebuttal to the readers who wrote defending school dodge ball [LETTERS, June 11]. A child not as physically developed as some other children should not be placed in a situation of discomfort as might occur in playing dodge ball. Sports like basketball and football allow individuals to make their own decision about how competitively to play. STEVEN WRIGHT Hamilton...
...some potential understanding of ourselves. For 25 years, the Duke University primatologist had been chasing orangutans through the swamps of Sumatra. Now he was starting to achieve startling new insights into some of our most fundamental questions: What made us men and not monkeys? When precisely did that divergence occur? And, even more intriguing, what lit the spark of learning and shared knowledge that eventually became mankind's bonfire of culture and science...
...back-story has been the same for a long while. Stock market flat. Corporate earnings depressing. Capital spending by businesses - the collapse of which started this slowdown, and the resurgence of which must occur to finally end it - still in deep hibernation. Alan Greenspan slashing rates with the zeal of a self-preservationist, a half-point at a time, on five straight occasions. (Twice between meetings...
...make it more dangerous," Avery says. "But what's happened is that a lot of the rides have gone to rapid, multi-directional changes on the track, and when you have rapid changes either side to side, or up or down, then you increase the potential for injuries to occur...