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...less than three years as Secretary of the interior, Watt managed to generate more support for environmentalists than the Sierra Club could in a decade. His knack for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, his uncanny ability to sabotage his own plans with memorable gaffes--surely Watt's successor will not be so incompetent...
...comparatively underpopulated Rocky Mountain states are expected to fill up at the most spectacular rate, with the region's population almost doubling by 2000. Six of the seven fastest-growing states lie between the Plains and the Sierra Nevada. The state of Nevada, growing most rapidly of all, is expected to increase its population from about 800,000 to almost 2 million by the start of the 21st century...
...choose their party's presidential nominee. But already the contenders are being ranked in a series of surveys and straw polls (some perhaps no more enlightening than a round of margaritas, but anxiously studied nonetheless). This month is filled with "cattle show" appearances before key political groups: the Sierra Club and the National Education Association a week ago, the National Women's Political Caucus this past weekend, the N.A.A.C.P. this week, the National Council of Senior Citizens later in the month. The fall will bring more straw polls, with key contests, so to speak, in New Jersey, Maine...
Other CDC experts work with Immigration and Naturalization Service officials to prevent exotic diseases from entering the country. Laboratory Director Joseph McCormick, who studied Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, sped to the Atlanta airport in a four-wheel-drive vehicle during a snowstorm last January to pick up a mysteriously ailing passenger from Nigeria. The man was placed in an isolation room until it was certain he was not suffering from one of the deadly viruses...
...does its best work in conventional forms. There are the hobbyist enthusiasms: the nudist nuptials, for example, and the ceremonies for skindivers performed underwater. In April a couple were married while circling above California's Santa Monica mountains, scrunched down with the minister in a single-engine Beechcraft Sierra. The rest of the wedding party, including the mother of the bride and the maid of honor, flew alongside in a second Beechcraft four-seater, then-faces grimacing merrily and soundlessly in the little windows...