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...absurd to fly back and forth like that. Symbolically, it sends out the wrong signal," said Jorgo Riss, director of Greenpeace E.U. "In this day and age they could have come up with something more imaginative. They could have held a virtual signing ceremony, over the Internet, which would have combined modern technologies with an environment-friendly policy...
...OLIVIA RISS PEEBLES, 7, who drew the headline lettering for our cover and our inside story, may be TIME's youngest contributor. A second-grader at St. Luke's School in New York City, Olivia began painting as a toddler. "I like to make my own pictures, not copy them, because that makes them really mine," she says. Art is just one of her passions. Among the others: her Abyssinian cat Horatio, cooking pizza and cakes, swimming, modern dance and rock 'n' roll. "I go crazy for the Beatles," says Olivia. "I feel free as a bird when I dance...
...criminals. When a Munich court tried to close the Barbie case in 1971, Beate Klarsfeld launched an international protest campaign that eventually turned up information on the missing SS man's whereabouts in Latin America. Largely on the basis of new evidence from the Klarsfelds, Lyon Magistrate Christian Riss decided to reopen the Barbie dossier in February 1982. This was necessary because his 1947 and 1954 convictions had lapsed as a result of France's 20-year statute of limitations on war crimes. Last November, Riss officially indicted the one time Gestapo captain for "crimes against humanity," giving...
...dwelling has been conclusively dated from surrounding geological formations, which have been carefully studied over the past century. And corroborating evidence comes from paleontological finds, such as the presence of the Helix pareti snails, which are known to have disappeared during the Second (Mindel-Riss) Interglacial Period...
...Robert B. Riss, 31, resigned as president of Riss & Co., third largest U.S. over-the-road truck line, was replaced by his father, Richard R. Riss, 54, who founded the family-owned corporation in 1930, got out of the presidency in 1950 to turn to other pursuits (real estate, cigar business, oil leases). University of Kansas-educated Bob Riss, who once said candidly, "It's much easier to climb the ladder of success if your father owns the ladder," took over the presidency at 23, decided to withdraw after his self-made, hard-driving father began stepping back...