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...rebelliousness has created a breeding ground for violence, especially in the austere rural settlements that bracket the Continental Divide. Pipe bombs have been found in the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico. An unknown assailant fired shots at a Forest Service biologist in California. Federal agents recently arrested a man after he tried to buy explosives that he allegedly planned to use in blowing up an irs office in Austin, Texas. And in Carson City, Nevada, last August, a bomb destroyed the family van of a forest ranger while it was parked in his driveway. The explosion was the second this...
...interior of the Sukkah is decorated with a combination of colorful pipe cleaners, pine branches and harvest fruits like maize and baby pumpkins...
...moment, that news from the future may only be Barry Diller's pipe dream. Diller, the onetime baron of Fox, last week bought into a skein of uhf TV stations to get back in the game. It is also a pipe nightmare for those who believe competition is the soul of both capitalism and pop-cultural creativity. But another deal last week brought the scenario a step toward plausibility. Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting System declared they were deep in negotiations that could lead to a Time Warner purchase, led by chairman Gerald Levin, of Ted Turner's prize fleet...
When Democrats ran the house, the health and environment subcommittee office was a no-smoking preserve ruled by anti- tobacco crusader Representative Henry Waxman. Today the subcommittee is part of the domain of Republican Thomas Bliley Jr., a pipe lover who hails from the tobacco state of Virginia. Smoking is now accepted in the old subcommittee room, and congressional aides gleefully flick their ashes into a glass ashtray placed atop Waxman's picture...
Recognition in the U.S. may be even harder to achieve than worldwide respectability. Plans for an American professional league next year still seem like a pipe dream, and players like Lalas and John Harkes and Cobi Jones have far more name recognition outside the 50 states than inside. The Copa America games were telecast to fans in the U.S. only on pay-per-view, and then only on Prime Deportiva, the Spanish-language cable service. "We've spent our entire lives trying to promote the game," says Wynalda, "but nobody pays attention. Until America accepts us as a viable team...