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...July 8, 1998, 8:45 a.m. That's the day the waiting stopped." It sounds like James Kirk, but it's BILL KRAFT describing the moment he found out Star Trek was going to be commemorated on a stamp--an event for which Kraft has been campaigning for 12 years. "It represents such fine ideals, like nonviolent resolution of conflict where possible," says Kraft, an interlibrary-loans assistant in Minnesota. He organized petitions, got Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and some Senators to write to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. The committee rejected the idea. Then came...
...elite group of "the country's foremost players," according to John Conkling of the American Pyrotechnics Association. How elite? Zambelli did the Statue of Liberty celebration in 1986. It did four presidential inaugurations, the Desert Storm troop return, the Pope in Toronto and, perhaps most important, the Elvis Presley stamp unveiling...
Thought the Supreme Court's decision to allow "indecency" online meant the Web was safe for porn? Not any more. The Justice Department has told federal prosecutors it's time to stamp out more prurient forms of titillation. "Investigation and prosecution of Internet obscenity is particularly suitable for federal resources," Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a June 10 memo to all U.S. attorneys, obtained by TIME's Netly News...
Stung by accusations from some Republicans that the Clinton administration isn't doing enough to stamp out cyber-smut, Holder reminded prosecutors that no web site is too insignificant. "Prosecution of cases involving relatively small distributors can have a deterrent effect and would dispel any notion that obscenity distributors are insulated from prosecution if their operations fail to exceed a predetermined size," Holder wrote...
Pino Arlacchi is a man with an audacious mission: to stamp out all heroin and cocaine production worldwide in 10 years. Yeah, sure. But before you sell him short, take note of what he has already done since taking over the U.N. Drug Control Program last September. Responding to reports that opium production in Afghanistan had shot up 25%, he flew to Kandahar and personally persuaded the country's radical Taliban rulers to halt future planting in exchange for help in reconstructing a factory that will provide jobs for impoverished residents. A few weeks ago, the Taliban publicly burned...