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...that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed to swap the mine for $65 million worth of government holdings elsewhere. Clinton was able to upstage the first day of the Republican Convention last August by posing in a beautiful alpine meadow flanked by an environmentalist and a mining executive, announcing that "Yellowstone is more...
Young Brothers Development--USA is the company TIME previously identified as the G.O.P.'s secret China connection. The firm has rescued Republicans in the past two elections with a $2.2 million loan guarantee, $500,000 of which the firm eventually swallowed. Though the funds originated with the company's Hong Kong parent, that transaction appears to have been embarrassing but legal, since it was funneled through an R.N.C. think tank, the National Policy Forum, rather than the party...
After a decade of grim headlines about spiraling hospital bills and shifty HMOs, the boom in self-medication comes as no surprise. "People are fed up with the high costs and side effects of drugs," says Earl Mindell, a registered pharmacist and author of Secret Remedies (Simon & Schuster, 1997), a new study of the self-care movement. "We're doubling our knowledge about nutrition every 18 months. So people wonder, instead of treating the symptoms as we've always been taught, why not help your body fight off the problem in the first place...
...were just up to White House and Republican negotiators, there might already be a budget deal. Agreement was close enough last week that a secret rendezvous was arranged between White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles, House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich and Speaker Newt Gingrich to discuss a final sticking point: whether it was possible to legislate a change in the Consumer Price Index, freeing up billions of extra dollars to pay for G.O.P. tax cuts and Democratic spending programs. Kasich and Bowles argued in favor, with Bowles suggesting that President Clinton's support would neutralize criticism from liberal...
DIED. HERBERT ZIPPER, 92, unconquerable Jewish conductor whose formation of a secret orchestra in a Nazi concentration camp inspired the acclaimed 1995 documentary Never Give Up; in Santa Monica, California. While interned at Dachau, Zipper led his fellow musicians on makeshift instruments--a defiance echoed in his co-composition of the resistance anthem Dachau Song...