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After Bush's defeat in 1992, Kristol stayed in Washington, where he founded a conservative think tank and served as a key Republican strategist. Kristol engineered the successful Republican assault on the Clinton health care reform plan...
...driving from the office, the fuel tank is nearing empty, and so is your refrigerator at home. For Americans ravenous of appetite but starved of time (and in need of an oil change), a quick turn into the Chevron station off Interstate 680 in San Ramon, Calif., is the answer. That's right, Chevron, purveyor of premium gasoline, is serving fresh panini, three-cheese pesto and double espressos along with its usual selection of octanes...
Even in such distinguished company, Lisbon's Oceans Pavilion stands out. Its titanic 1.2 million-gal. central tank and four side tanks (holding an additional 300,000 gal.) are home to 8,000 specimens of 250 species, arranged so that predators and prey seem to swim side by side. Visitors to the aquarium set off on a grand, circumnavigable tour around the world's oceans, past sharks, bluefish, wreckfish and more. Along the way they pass through naturalistic-looking coastal exhibits that represent four major littoral ecologies: rocky North Atlantic cliffs with cavorting razorbills and murres; subpolar grassy banks populated...
...animals seem to live alongside, yet are safely away from, the predatory ocean dwellers. "The wonderful thing is that it all starts to connect and take on a richness," says Chermayeff. Indeed, it's possible to look past puffins and otters in the foreground and see right into a tank of sharks, rays and groupers. "When you look through the acrylic window, you can lose yourself in the ocean and become involved in some connective way with these little creatures," he says. "The aquarium gives you the opportunity to gaze and dream...
Seattle, we have a problem?. Last week Continental Airlines mechanics found that fuel leaks in a wing tank had turned a Boeing 737 into a TWA 800 waiting to happen. The FAA ordered a nationwide check of the first two generations of the popular airliner, and after 14 further cases of dangerous wear in wires near fuel tanks were found in older 737s, the federal body yesterday grounded all 737-100s operating in the U.S. Experts believe that the problem is caused by engine vibrations on older versions...