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...heroes had probably preserved two redwood groves in Humboldt County, one of them the celebrated 3,000-acre Headwaters tract, a spectacular forest of towering, ancient redwoods--the largest still in private hands. And they knew for certain that they had sacrificed four smaller groves, rich with endangered wildlife. Activists at Owl Creek, one of the doomed groves, climbed the big trees and spread banners: DON'T RAPE THE REDWOODS...
...Charles Hurwitz, a Houston-based junk-bond wizard who plays the corporate-villain role well. Charlie's sin? He owns the trees, and he'll cut them if he wants to--and does he want to. In 1986 his company, MAXXAM (1995 sales: $2.57 billion), bought Pacific Lumber, the redwoods' owner. Hurwitz visited PL's Scotia, California, mill, and told workers he believed in the golden rule: "He who has the gold, rules." Then he drained $55 million from PL's $93 million pension fund, and cranked up the timber cut to pay off his debt. A redwood...
Sitting in NeXT's offices in Redwood City, California, Jobs is slightly more subdued than the hyperenergetic--and, some would say, megalomaniacal--pitchman of old. "You have to work differently once you have a family," he says. (He lives with his wife and three children in a large house in Palo Alto.) "When I was in my 20s, I literally would work 18-hour days, seven days a week. You do that with a family, and you won't have a family for very long...
...sand, has stuck her nose into the conflict in the Middle East, the Iran-contra scandal and the marriage of Mike Tyson and Robin Givens. She is a living, talking, occasionally fawning chronicle of culture and politics in the latter half of the 20th century. She is like a redwood that...
British Prime Minister John Major quelled a rebellion within his ranks, winning reelection as Conservative Party leader by a vote of 218 to 89 over challenger John Redwood. Major wasted no time in reshuffling his Cabinet to reward loyalists from the center and the left of his party. At issue: Britain's future role in the European Union, which Conservative "Euro-skeptics'' fear will diminish their country's independence. Analysts say the real winner in the leadership contest was the Labour Party--now enjoying a nearly 30-point lead in polls and gaining strength for the general election, which must...