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...were days many environmentalists consider Salvucci's work anathema. They deride Salvucci's pet project, Scheme Z--a proposed highway exchange in East Cambridge to which Salvucci has devoted 20 years of his life, calling it "the ugliest structure in New England" and an "environmental nightmare...
After arriving in Saudi Arabia with the 1st Combat Engineers Battalion, Thom fought boredom by keeping pet scorpions -- the first one, named Maurice, died; the other was called Mel Torme -- in a camouflaged desert shelter. In one letter home, he pleaded for Tabasco to spice up his rations, and in another he told a fire-fighting friend to keep the boisterous Magnolia Saloon on Main Street from burning down so they could enjoy his first legal beers there upon his return. At home, a Queensland heeler puppy named B.B. and a cat named P.J. are still waiting...
...proposal to cut the capital-gains tax rate is deja voodoo economics all over again. What is novel this time is that the plan is dead on arrival. Bush needs to placate conservatives, who are annoyed that he so easily gave up on their pet project during last fall's budget battle. But by tossing the issue to a blue-ribbon commission, the President has ensured its slow but certain demise. Resisting the temptation to court conservatives on emotional and divisive social issues, he made no mention of abortion, flag burning or affirmative action. Nor did he raise the controversial...
Things really get interesting when the creatures on my pet planet develop intelligence. The program is set up so that the beings that become smart are not necessarily human. They can as easily be dolphins or spiders. In one game I played, it was a lizard that discovered fire. Africa was soon littered with Stone Age reptile cities...
...When the Department of Education announced this week that it would cut federal funding to any school which doled out scholarships based on race, observers naturally assumed the decision had come from higher up. After all, everyone knew that race was a pet issue for new Republican Party Chair William Bennett. In fact, many thought Bennett would turn race into a central issue in the 1992 campaign. But then Bennett turned down the GOP job at the last minute, and word leaked out that Bush didn't even know about the decision beforehand. As a result, educators are now hoping...