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...LEADING BRITISH POETS appeared together on a platform at Hull University. One was Ted Hughes, the widower of Sylvia Plath: intense, leather- jacketed, trailing a romantic aura. The other was Philip Larkin, an overweight, bald, bespectacled and partly deaf figure in a dark suit who later described himself as providing the "sophisticated, insincere, effete, and gold-watch-chained alternative...
...Yorker publishes libel defendant's massive Sylvia Plath piece...
During the meetings, commissioners asked participants what they thought the city could do to improve racial and ethnic equity, what the commission could do, and what citizens themselves could do, said commission Chair Sylvia Saavedra-Keber...
...Waco. Investigators put the body count for the April 19 inferno at 80. The Texas Rangers scavenged 200 whole guns after the fire. The Justice and Treasury departments began reviews of the roles played by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. And cult member Stan Sylvia, whose wife and daughters died, brought the first lawsuit against the U.S. government, for $18 million...
...even from shocks like the estimated 250 million to 350 million gal. of crude that was deliberately pumped into the Persian Gulf in 1991 by Saddam Hussein's army. Though the majestic coral reefs in the gulf still show the effects of their trauma, they are slowly rebuilding. Says Sylvia Earle, a former chief scientist of the U.S.'s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who visited the gulf last year: "The reef was like a weedy lot, not a healthy wilderness, but it was green and growing. It was in a state of flux...