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...chance to bask in one another's glow. Sound like fun? This year a mob of 1,200 pols and aspiring Friends of Bill are clamoring for invitations to the exclusive camp, where 100 favored families will take part in seminars that last year ranged from "Our Fragile Planet" to "Building an Inner Life...
Trichloroethane is widely used as a cleanser in microchip manufacturing. Unfortunately, it also attacks the planet's ozone layer, so chipmakers are looking for a substitute. Now AT&T may have one in N-butyl butyrate, a chemical found in, of all things, cantaloupes, peaches and plums. In fruit, it contributes to overall flavor; in the atmosphere, it should help reduce mankind's siege of the ozone layer, in turn relieving the onslaught of cancer- and cataract-causing ultraviolet light...
...companionship, Carville agreed to put his thoughts into full sentences on paper, and thus turned out the basic working document for the general campaign in June. "We never had a cross word despite my spending most of my waking hours with him in the most intense endeavor on the planet. With other people, I have cross words about every five minutes," says Carville crossly. "Let's put it this way: I wish I had a daughter because I would want her to marry George...
Those who watch Bush know he is pondering the meaning of existence on this planet as never before. Here and there he has muttered a phrase or two about the transience of political power and wondering what is left when it passes. He has answered his own question. What is left is the infinite tenderness and love within a caring family. He had the best. And there is irony in the fact that he may never have understood that so many others were not so blessed by Providence, and that is one of the reasons he lost this election...
Aliens prefer Pepsi. In another commercial, they go for Mars candy. Or never leave home planet without their American Express. Or their L.A. Gear. Uh-oh, they're yuppies! Watch for a new network series: martiansomething...