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...those rising waters--26 billion gal.--lap menacingly just blocks from the center of town and 360 ft. below the rim of the pit, threatening one day to spill into an underground aquifer and send a tide of contaminants seeping into neighborhoods and creeks across the Summit Valley. Some people are concerned about a shroud of morning mist and fog--a product of the lake--that envelops parts of the town. "All that moisture has to be carrying bad things in it," says worried restaurateur Buck Loomis...
Which raises a question that, says Moore, "we've never really dealt with": What to do with the money? He and Reischauer agree that at least some of it should be devoted to shoring up the Social Security system against the flood tide of baby-boomer retirements around 2012, though they disagree on the mechanism...
Here's a cautionary tale about entrusting the free market with the task of caring for the very poor. Connecticut's welfare administrators, swept up in the national tide of reform, decided last year to inject a little private enterprise into their tired bureaucracy. They awarded a $12.8 million contract to Maximus Inc., based in McLean, Va., to put a shine on a state program that pays for child care for working welfare recipients. But within months Maximus found its operations in the kind of disarray it usually takes government years to achieve. More than...
There's also the hunger for having it all, a voracious desire to devour life--and food. Aside from the Mexican chow consumed during this late-afternoon interview, a solicitous valet furnishes Travolta with a box of chocolate ladyfingers, mere snacks "to tide him over" until dinner. Lunch can be an orgy of steamed lobster or an artery-choking beef Wellington. His sister Annie marvels at this "Vanderbilt" life-style, where 24-hour chefs cater to any food fantasy. Even during a marketing powwow for Primary Colors, Nichols recalls, "everyone brought along sandwiches except John, who was served four...
...this war we must, I think, take care not to divide ourselves into color groups. The tide of feeling about color runs very high over in the Orient. Indians, Chinese, Filipinos, and others are sensitive to the danger point about their relation as colored peoples to white peoples. Many Americans do not realize this, but it is true, and we must recognize it or we may suffer for it severely. The Japanese are using our well-known race prejudice as one of their chief propaganda arguments against us. Everything must be done to educate Americans not to provide further fuel...