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...piled on. Now it's a sloppy $14.7 billion porker -- complete with a controversial permit for a gold mine on a pristine Washington State mountain and $3 million to aid commercial reindeer herders in Alaska. It could have been worse. Some $270 million in supports for oil, gas and steel companies had to be yanked at the last minute, for fear that Clinton would have declared "enough" and vetoed the bill outright...
Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, said the human population has homogenized because of changes in lifestyle that he called "agricultural expansion...
Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, said the human population has homogenized because of changes in lifestyle that he called "agricultural expansion...
...calls his swanky law office "the house the Mob built." Its walls are decorated with newspaper stories about acquittals he won for alleged organized-crime figures. A toy rat lies dead in a trap near the fireplace, and a pair of steel balls given him by two reputed wiseguys hangs over the door. His name is Oscar Goodman, and he could be the next mayor of Las Vegas. As he tours Sin City on the campaign trail--gloating over its tacky exuberance, making love with it--I ride shotgun...
That bill has been languishing in congressional limbo for months, a victim of squabbles over tobacco settlement money and help for the steel, oil and mining industries, among others. Not any more. "We really don't have time" to consider the Yugoslavia spending legislation separately, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) said Tuesday. So by the end of next week, Clinton should get that $13 billion poke in the eye -- and Central Americans should get the help they need. Only six months late...