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...clothes, are devilishly difficult to sweep up and are lousy for the environment. Yet those ubiquitous, annoying Styrofoam pellets seem to swaddle just about every fragile object sent through the mail. Now Cal Garland, a Suwanee, Ga., lumberyard owner, has patented a machine that manufactures fluffy curls of paper-thin wood shavings that do the job just as well as polystyrene. And after the package is opened, just dump the wispy curlicues into your backyard: they also make a mighty fine mulch...
While the natural inclination is to dismiss Robb as merely another member of the lunatic fringe, one cannot so easily dismiss the forces that drive his crusade or its impact. His updated rhetoric provides a paper-thin layer of respectability to a noxious creed that appeals to alienated white youths like Shawn Slater, whom Robb is grooming as a future Klan leader. An ex-skinhead, Slater now heads the Klan's chapter in Aurora, Colo. Like his mentor, Slater has mastered the art of attracting publicity by staging events that draw the wrath of protesters. In Denver last January...
...fill in the blanks. The Bush campaign, in particular, has pushed the theme that Perot was right when he told the New York Times in 1969 that "I'm a direct, action-oriented person, and I'd be terrible in public office." Bush's people portray him as a thin- . skinned and ruthless man who tends to take his goals as holy objectives to be reached by any means available, who sees rivals as evil conspirators to be crushed, and who pursues astonishingly meanspirited vendettas against anyone who crosses him, even in petty matters. Vice President Dan Quayle even warned...
Never mind that the most sensational parts are among the oldest information. Morton makes much of Diana's bulimia, usually a disease of young girls who follow binge eating with self-induced vomiting in order to stay slender. But Diana's painfully thin phase goes back to the early '80s, after Prince William's birth. Some of the material sounds farfetched, including an account of her throwing herself down a flight of steps in view of the Queen Mother...
...most flagrant-appearing trades can fall within legal bounds. The Bioscience transactions, now challenged by shareholders as improper, apparently satisfied SEC guidelines. Explains Robert Gabele, president of Invest/Net, a Fort Lauderdale research firm that tracks insider trades: "Many corporate insider trades are not illegal, just unethical. There's a thin gray line...