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...hard to find a discouraging word about the project--who wants to be a grinch when the Gipper is ailing? The tightest-fisted among us would not want to turn around and see Rancho del Subdivision--though in this case commercial development seems a tad unlikely, given the rugged terrain 2,000 ft. up a narrow, twisting seven-mile road. But Paul Pritchard, president of the National Park Trust, calls the purchase "highly irregular," given that the fund for taking care of well-established parks is in "desperate shape." And California Democratic Congressman George Miller says he finds no justification...
...full of the kind of glossy, richly decorated love tunes that shimmer when illuminated by Carey's bright voice. She seems to have suffered none of the I've-got-to-prove-myself jitters. Even as the ground shifted beneath her, she wisely decided to stick to the musical terrain she knows best--resplendent ballads and sleek, romantic grooves. Butterfly, like Carey's last album, Daydream, has a breezy, unobtrusive style that flows easily from one song to the next. It continues the evolution that Carey began on Daydream--away from pure pop toward a keener-edged...
...into with our lawn mowers. If all goes well, our grandchildren will encounter the floodplains of Mars in a third-grade geography lesson, and maybe even find them a little dull. But cuteness short-circuits the whole process of learning and discovery. When we turn the Martian terrain into a comic strip, when we reduce a tragic hero to an action figure, we are making things seem tame and familiar before we even know what they are. We are insisting, in our pathetic provincialism, that there is nothing out there--either in the mythic past or the distant reaches...
...straight hours near the end of their training stint, it requires recruits to simulate a variety of battlefield actions amid 40 miles of hiking. They traverse a 20-ft.-wide creek with a pair of 10-ft. boards, and they carry a "wounded" Marine for a mile over rugged terrain. They perform with scant sleep or food, through day and night, and have to ignore scrapes and sprains. "I had to keep going and not let my team down," says Private Scott Feather. The Marines say the beefed-up regimen is working, based on early anecdotal evidence of fewer disciplinary...
What is left for our poor Mr. Peepers as a symbol of manly pride? The scenes would seem surreal if they weren't already so familiar. An investment banker braves the brutal terrain of Park Avenue in a vehicle built for climbing sand dunes under enemy fire. A claims adjuster clambers aboard a car designed to haul caribou carcasses, so he can pick up his wife's fuchsias at the suburban garden center. Did the old man flip his jeep on Omaha Beach? Then his son will have a Jeep too, to drop off the kids at the multiplex. Vroom...