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...himself, and ready to accommodate the views I expressed. The National Party had announced a ((reform)) program in which they talked about ''group rights.'' I said to him, ''Look, this will introduce apartheid through the back door.'' He replied, ''Well, if you don't like it, then we'll scrap it.'' I smuggled a message to the A.N.C. leadership in Zambia and said, ''I think we can do business with this man.'' I did not expect that he was going to be so positive. DE KLERK: I don't believe I am irreplaceable. I don't believe he is irreplaceable...
Congress's role has been pivotal. Lawmakers wrote bankruptcy regulations to allow corporations to scrap the health insurance they promised employees who retired early--sometimes voluntarily, quite often not. They wrote pension rules that encouraged corporations to underfund their retirement plans or switch to plans less favorable to employees. They denied workers the right to sue to enforce retirement promises. They have refused to overhaul America's health-care system, which has created the world's most expensive medical care without any comparable benefit. One by one, lawmakers have undermined or destroyed policies that once afforded at least the possibility...
...Nature Conservancy (TNC) and catching on in other parts of the country, is cutting down on tree cutting. In place of a woodpile, the system gives homes a pigpen, toilet, greenhouse, underground tank and some rubber tubing. Waste--from the pigpen, the toilet and the odd kitchen scrap--ferments in the underground tank, heating the greenhouse and producing a steady stream of methane to power stoves and lamps. The greenhouse helps keep the tank warm in winter, and the by-product of the tank's digestion makes good fertilizer. The whole setup costs $180. TNC, which installed more than...
...bringing scenes alive. One sad and telling sequence finds Shane delighted by an old piano left in a house into which his family moves. "But the music didn't last," he writes over a frame of his father smashing the instrument. "To make more room, they dismantled it into scrap...
After a brief pause, the section leader always chimes in, desperately searching for a shred of intellectual value to pull from that worthless scrap heap...