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...quick; there is a tough, tensile quality about her-not the invulnerability of an enchanted child, but the eerie confidence of the very strong. Polanski, in Paris, talked of her "great acting talent and her tremendous will," and then added that "as we Poles say, 'She does not pour vodka behind her collar.' " This, he explained, means not that she swills alcohol, but that she throws herself fearlessly at life...
...spill began in late January, when a storm toppled a rig in Iran's Nowruz oil field at the northern tip of the gulf. The well had already been damaged two years ago, when a tanker rammed the platform, causing almost 2,000 bbl. a day to pour into the sea. In March, Iraqi helicopter gunships bombed at least two other wells in the same oil field. Those wells began leaking up to 5,000 additional...
...assured on all sides that a nuclear war is "unwinnable." Why do we pour billions into developing a nuclear deterrent to the Warsaw Pact, while neglecting the immediate problem, the woeful state of our front-line conventional deterrent? The implication is that U.S. strategic thinking is stuck on the antagonistic notion of carrying the ultimate big stick...
...year-old son in a three-mile run, and his sex life sizzled. "I could be the macho man I always dreamed about." Soon he was spending $1,000 a week, snorting two grams a day with only minutes between "toots." "Even when you drive, you can pour a little sniff on your hand," he says. After a year of cocaine use, Trop discovered freebasing, and the social highs turned insidiously antisocial. "In the beginning, I felt I was communicating with God," he says with a wry smile...
...expected to step up enforcement against corporate polluters, clean up toxic-waste dumps, beef up the agency's management and budget, and repair its shattered relationship with Congress. Ruckelshaus was the nearly unanimous choice of top White House officials. Said one Reagan aide: "He more than anybody can pour cold water on the flames...