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...just another greenhouse: a hermetic seal separating 3,800 species of plants and animals, including four men and four women, from the rest of the planet, and a veneer of scientific legitimacy. The seal has been broken several times in the past year and a half -- most recently to pump in 10 tons of badly needed oxygen. Now the veneer of credibility, already bruised by allegations of tamper-prone data, secret food caches and smuggled supplies, has cracked...
THIS YEAR WE'LL PUMP $15 BILLION INTO THE ECONomy. On second thought, make it $31 billion...
Supporters of this measure are taking a beating even though the average U.S. pump price of $1.16 per gal., when adjusted for inflation, is the lowest since the mid-1960s. (The cost includes 20 cents per gal. for state and local levies.) Moreover, each penny increase in the federal tax raises about $1 billion in revenues. Trouble is, the tax has far fewer friends than enemies, including Clinton, who is wary of measures that might put him between Americans and their cars. It is also the most politically volatile form of energy tax, because it is the most visible...
...album, Colvin paints delicate word landscapes of analysand wonderlands. Like Carpenter, who sings backup on the anthemic Climb On (A Back That's Strong), Colvin, 32, has paid beaucoup dues, working the Manhattan folk scene for more than a decade, in between gigs singing jingles and touring in Pump Boys and Dinettes. With Fat City she needn't worry about paying the rent. Its 11 songs are strong, tuneful, as hard to shake off as a wraith's visitation or a first love...
...long as families do not lie about assets. John Kuzmich, a high school band director in Golden, Colorado, with a Ph.D. in music, managed to obtain a computer-teaching job with lower pay in the hope that his son will qualify for more aid next year. Some families pump as much money as possible into retirement funds, whole life insurance or tax-deferred annuities, none of which are counted as assets. They lend money temporarily from savings to a family corporation. They invest in a condo near campus, which increases debt and provides housing for their child. Or they might...