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...agency he took over was torn by conflicting loyalties, financially dependent on timber sales and tied up in lawsuits charging it with skirting wilderness and endangered-species regulations--charges that the Agriculture Department's inspector general appeared to validate last week. In a scorching review of Forest Service policy, investigators found loopholes in hundreds of environmental-impact assessments written to support timber sales...
...Lajoi Moore, the past year has been all about The Test. She started preparing last summer with a six-week Kaplan test-prep course, in which she took mock exams and brushed up on test-taking strategies. Since then, she has dedicated part of each afternoon--and nearly all her Christmas vacation--to writing practice essays and memorizing 150 vocabulary words on flash cards. In the final days before the test, she stepped up her studying regimen, cramming sometimes until after midnight. And when the big day arrived last week, Lajoi took a lucky rabbit's foot to the test...
...late, however, for Chicagoans surveying the devastation outside their front doors. Maria Conde, 33, and her brother Baltasar, 30, took a melancholy stroll through the neighborhood with their video camera the day before the saws arrived, eager to preserve on tape the neighborhood they have known for 25 years. "It will be a part of history," said Maria. "This is one way we can participate." In October, soon after residents learned of the planned annihilation, Lutheran pastor Karen Parsons hosted an art day at her church, which sits in the heart of the infested area. About 70 adults and children...
...premiere--was the talk of the Golden Globes with straight tresses that flowed down her back. The look has been exploding in fashionable circles since last fall, when labels like Gucci and Marc Jacobs showed their spring/summer collections with straight, flat "Cher hair," and celebrities like Madonna and Fergie took up the style. Extensions were the hit of last week's Victoria's Secret show in New York City, and are expected to be prominent again at next week's fall collections...
...have taken a turn for the worse. Overseas markets have turned sour, with, first, Southeast Asia, then Russia and now Latin America producing surprises to the downside. Amazingly, these weakened economies have shown more appetite for computer hardware and software than for fancy razors and soda. A stronger dollar took away some of the pizazz. And some of the great brands have run out of room to show double-digit growth without bumping into one another. This week saw another tough quarter from Pepsi, which can seem to win only if it spends massively to take market share from Coke...