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Consumer advocate Stuart Rado, a Miami Beach businessman who lost $3,500 to an overseas-job firm in 1981, blames the government for lax policing. "The FTC is impotent to do anything. People don't know where to complain," he says. In the past six months, however, the state attorney general's office has filed civil suit against four companies, including the now defunct Roblan, and is investigating four more firms for deceptive trade practices. Last month the FTC filed a complaint against another Florida operator, the Douglas Co., for allegedly deceiving clients about jobs in sunny foreign climes...
...Dragon His Feet (Mark Baskin) is stolen unabashedly from Stuart Smalley, the Alan S. Franken '73 character on Saturday Night Live, Baskin is excellent as the co-dependent lizard, the "self-help salamander." His song, "Stop Dragon Your Heart Around," is fun, albeit a little long...
...homosexuality. Summers offers fresh details of Hoover's 40-year friendship with Clyde Tolson, a handsome young agent he plucked out of the rank and file and quickly promoted to assistant director. The pair ate dinner together almost every night and vacationed together every year; Summers contends that Luisa Stuart, a former fashion model, once saw them holding hands in the back seat of a limo. According to Summers, the Mafia claimed to have the goods on Edgar and Clyde, including compromising photographs of the two men engaging in oral sex. That knowledge provided the mob with rich blackmail material...
...this measure, complexity works, at least roughly. Computer simulations of ( life, the best-known application of the theory, create onscreen worlds of cyber-creatures that evolve in ways that eerily parallel real life. Biophysicist Stuart Kauffman of the Santa Fe Institute says confidently, "Biological evolution proceeds at the boundary between order and chaos. If there is too much order, the system becomes frozen and cannot change. But if there is too much chaos, the system retains no memory of what went on before...
Others hope that Clinton will deliver on his promise to help young people get ahead. Last fall Stuart O'Dell, 19, registered 503 voters out in front of the Wal-Mart store where he works. Because Clinton won Montgomery County by fewer than 3,200 votes, O'Dell likes to think he helped put Clinton over the top. In return, he expects the President to push through his plan to help students go to college in exchange for some form of community service, a promise that Clinton has already scaled back somewhat. "I've managed to save...