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Chris Coffin loved being a soldier. "In Chris' family, that was what you did," Betsy explains. "His father expected it, and he just grew up believing in serving your country." Chris joined the Army in 1971, served as a tank crewman for 3 1/2 years, then moved to the reserves, where he was a tank commander. About 10 years ago, he joined a civil-affairs unit and worked for the rest of the time as a policeman or a summer ranger in national parks like the one in Gettysburg, Pa. He would have loved to work at Gettysburg full-time...
...longest-ever British strike, when 3,000 local quarrymen walked off the job for three years. But the group isn't all about politics; after all, two yetis play kettledrums during a rendition of Mountain People. In the early days, the five members drove to festivals in their blue tank with built-in sound system, and their live shows routinely featured 40-foot inflatable bears and various other hirsute creatures. And it's that mix of comic and caustic that makes the Super Furries special. Since its first album, Fuzzy Logic, in 1996, the band has been delivering intelligent, often...
...existence of a potentially more pernicious policy: tariffs. Both the EU and the U.S. impose suffocating import tariffs, often well above 100 percent of the commodity’s value, to block cheaply produced African goods from the lucrative western markets. The Institute of Economic Affairs, a British think tank, estimates that EU agricultural subsidies have reduced African exports of milk products by 90 percent, livestock by almost 70 percent and non-grain crops by 50 percent. Without European tariffs, the Food Policy Research Institute, a Washington-based group that focuses on food needs in developing countries, estimates that agricultural...
...with Kris Slava, vice president of acquisitions and scheduling, and gave him a list of shows I wanted to air: The Chevy Chase Show, My Mother the Car, Manimal, Pink Lady and Jeff and Mr. Smith, the 1983 NBC sitcom about an orangutan that ran a Washington think tank. Slava put a lot of work into looking into this and discovered that the freaks who owned Chevy Chase's talk show not only wanted a fortune per episode but would sell us only all 30. Finally, we decided that since we had only a few hours of prime-time programming...
...Slava also bought me Battle of the Network Stars, so I could relive the thrill I got seeing Catherine Bach in the dunk tank. He got me the MTV game show Idiot Savants, where I was the only contestant ever to yell out an incorrect answer immediately after someone else had given the same incorrect answer. And he got me the Late Night with David Letterman from my junior year of high school, where Dave read my letter on the air, which is still the highlight of my writing career. As you can probably tell from this article...