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...claims that the oil fouled only a few miles of the nearby Kolva River and that the water has been 90% cleaned up. The remaining oil, he says, covers less than 50 acres of swampland. Most factory workers in the area were . deployed with shovels to try to scoop up the mess. When the ground freezes for the winter, the Russians will be able to bring in heavy equipment to finish...
...striking workers. Both the Chronicle and the Examiner were set to go on the Internet later this month -- but the strike moved up the date to Wednesday morning. The strikers tabloid, the Free Press, hit the 'net Thursday morning, featuring favorite columnist Herb Caen and a scoop on Dianne Feinstein's bid for re-election to the Senate. The Free Press reported thatFeinstein employed an illegal alienin the 1980s, a fact later confirmed by U.S. immigration officials. Employees of the two newspapers walked off the job Tuesday night in a dispute over pay and layoffs of Teamster delivery drivers...
Spotts' great strength is the balance he maintains in his well-organized narrative. Music history, cultural comment and such issues as the family's embrace of Nazism are all deftly combined. Spotts told TIME he was so determined to maintain the right proportions that he omitted his biggest scoop: that Hitler sexually abused the young Wieland during the '20s. If he had gone into that scandal, Spotts says, "it would be all anybody wrote about...
...dessert. 1) Microwave your pie (avoid the too-dense boysenberry). 2)Put a scoop of white frozen milk confection on it--yogurt or ice cream, you never know. 3) Show visible ecstasy in front of your friends as you feast...
DeTik's greatest scoop, however, came while the paper was acting as a conduit for political signals. Last October, Suharto installed Information Minister Harmoko, who has no military credentials, as chief of the ruling Golkar Party -- a post that had previously been reserved for generals. The weekly published an interview with Army Major-General Sembiring Meliala, a former member of Parliament, who warned that the military would not tolerate being pushed away from the centers of power -- raising the specter of a clash between the President and the military...