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When it comes to the environment in general, the President must answer charges that his campaign sales pitch was little more than bait and switch. Almost immediately upon taking office, the soothing candidate who made it a point to sound so many green themes on the stump began to govern much more like the oil-patch President conservatives hoped he would be. The Administration announced it was suspending rules to reduce arsenic in drinking water, reconsidering Bill Clinton's decision to protect 58 million acres of federal land from logging, and pursuing oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Warming: A Climate Of Despair | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...then with a flip of a switch the works begin to spin. Suddenly the pieces look like a carousel or the flying swing ride at fairs. The soft light in the room produces a moving shadow on the white walls, and the shadows combined with the airy room give the gallery a summery feel. For a minute, you stop, stare and smile...

Author: By Michaela O. Daniel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Visiting Faculty Exhibition at Wellsley | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

...easy moving through the world when you're terrified of electricity. "Donna," 45, a writer, knows that better than most. Get her in the vicinity of an appliance or a light switch or--all but unthinkable--a thunderstorm, and she is overcome by a terror so blinding she can think of nothing but fleeing. That, of course, is not always possible, so over time, Donna has come up with other answers. When she opens the refrigerator door, rubber-soled shoes are a must. If a light bulb blows, she will tolerate the dark until someone else changes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fear Not! | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...earn the Rev. Arthur Allen Jr.'s ire. But the memory of the punishment that followed will surely live on. Police say three of Allen's flock, heeding the pastor's teaching, held the boy down in the House of Prayer church while a fourth whipped him with a switch. On Feb. 28, when the boy told a teacher he was in pain, she found welts on his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whippings In The Pulpit | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...wheel of a yellow Camaro with a front license plate that reads "Pussy" and a rear plate that reads "Cat." She slams into leering young men and scratches a police car before picking up an elderly woman at a lewdly named old-folks' home. Then Madonna and gal pal switch to a red Trans Am, set fire to a gas station, run over street hockey players and execute a Thelma & Louise-style crash into a pole. Madonna says her character is "acting out a fantasy and doing things girls are not supposed to do." She and Ritchie will continue their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 2, 2001 | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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