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Thurmond is haunted by a past that does not exactly merit a seat on the Judiciary Committee. He was a rapid proponent of segregation in 1948 but has since become a repentant integrator. Originally a Democrat, he has become the definition of an archconservative Republican. Even with his experience, Thurmond must rest a few notches below Metzenbaum on the whom-do-you-trust totem pole...
...Worldwide temperature shifts of a few degrees over half a century -- the kind envisioned in theories of global warming -- would disrupt weather patterns, change sea levels and be difficult for animal and plant life to adjust to. The changes Peel measured, though, are roughly three times as severe and rapid...
Strategic Edge Information Group, which bills itself as a "low-cost and rapid document retrieval service," was started by two Harvard undergraduates. The company has been serving several area firms for the past year, and currently does between $5,000 and $10,000 per week in sales, said group partner Stephen D. Price...
Halberstam's bounciest chapters are about the decade's leading entrepreneurs: William Levitt, the former Seabee who applied rapid building techniques to construct Levittowns; Eugene Ferkauf, whose E.J. Korvettes chain earned him the title "the Discount King"; Kemmons Wilson, founder of Holiday Inns; and Ray Kroc, who turned the McDonald brothers' Santa Anita hamburger ) stand into a national feeding trough...
...argues Jim Antrim, general curator at Sea World in San Diego. "The trainer seems to be feeding the animal an inferior type of fish and often walks by the animal in an uninterested manner." Sea World execs charge that the movie is inaccurate on many levels, from the miraculously rapid affinity between Jesse and Willy to the malicious characterization of trainers, park staff and visitors. In one scene, dozens of customers bang interminably on the glass wall of Willy's tank, inciting the whale to a destructive frenzy. No security guard is in sight...