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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUOTE OF NOTE: [On Clinton's regulatory crackdown on tobacco] "It's a political football the President has decided he wants to ram down Kentucky's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: KENTUCKY | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Opponents say they have raised only $30,000 to defeat the measure. The war chest in favor of Prop 215 tops $1 million, much of it from sympathetic tycoons. On the recommendation of Baba Ram Dass, the spiritual leader who works with aids patients, Laurance S. Rockefeller contributed $50,000. Global financier George Soros has contributed $350,000. With deep pockets like those behind it, the fight over medical marijuana could easily go national next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARIJUANA: WHERE THERE'S SMOKE, THERE'S FIRE | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

Before skating at Maximus, athletes need to first sift your way through a nine-page waiver form that absolves Maximum and its owners, Ram Hannan and Doug Moore, from responsibility for "death, illness or disease, or damage to myself...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: DESTINATION | 10/22/1996 | See Source »

Drexel, a German shepherd owned by Ram Hannan, the co-owner of Maximum, bounds up the stairs to the half pipe platform to announce the arrival of his owner, who's clad in a white sleeveless T-shirt that accentuates the tattoo running down his entire left...

Author: By Shira A. Springer, | Title: DESTINATION | 10/22/1996 | See Source »

...present collide with the desire to preserve ecosystems for the future. But one of the surprising lessons of the bruising battles over the environment in the past few years is that green sentiment is again a powerful political force. That's why Alaska Senator Frank Murkowski failed to ram through legislation that would have facilitated timber cutting in the Tongass National Forest. In California the Clinton Administration reached an agreement that would protect Headwaters, a privately owned grove of ancient redwoods that has been the focus of protests for years. And in Maine voters moved closer to imposing controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FIGHTING FOR THE FORESTS | 10/14/1996 | See Source »

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