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...months the Administration has approved plans to search for oil and gas at dozens of sites in the Lower 48 states. In January, it fast-tracked seismic exploration for oil and gas by 26-ton "thumper trucks" in Utah's Dome Plateau desert, a few miles from Arches National Park--until the Interior Department's appeals office temporarily halted the trucks, saying a more thorough assessment of environmental damage was needed. And now the Administration is considering a proposal to drill more than 50,000 methane-gas wells in Wyoming and Montana...
...right? Is Bush a menace or a pragmatist? On some issues--air quality, easing national-park maintenance backlogs and farmland conservation--Bush's novel, market-driven approaches may prove efficient and effective in ways that some environmentalists seem unable to see. And there has been more continuity with the previous White House than either the Clinton-bashing Bush team or the Bush-hating environmentalists like to admit. EPA's Whitman, for instance, upheld the standard for arsenic in drinking water that the Clinton Administration adopted in its last hours in office (although she did so only after a public outcry...
Jean-Marie Messier certainly made a splash when he moved to New York City from Paris last year. He settled into a $17.5 million Park Avenue duplex and started popping up at Metropolitan Opera soirees and in the gossip pages. Perhaps that's fitting, since Messier is a former water-company executive who became a man-about-town and a French business celebrity by turning Compagnie Generale des Eaux into a $51 billion global media giant, Vivendi Universal. Messier did it by orchestrating a series of stock-and-cash deals for American assets such as Universal Studios and USA Networks...
...THEME-PARK RIDES B.C.: Most Disney-style rides were slow and staid. A.D.: Here comes Space Mountain (a Star Wars race in the dark), Lucas' own Star Tours and Indiana Jones rides. Many Universal and Disney attractions are film franchises at warp speed...
...more than 200 members of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce enjoyed a breakfast buffet at the Park Plaza Hotel, Summers presented the ideas that have become a cornerstone of his agenda since his arrival at Harvard—developing the University’s “little real estate development” in Allston and building a center for life sciences akin to Silicon Valley...