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...ardors of the trip remind me why this area has remained unchanged since the last Ice Age. Amid our planet's vain struggle to balance conservation with human aspirations, the Ndoki has no villages whose needs must be met or colonists determined to build a new outpost of civilization. Fortunately, this last Eden has formidable barriers protecting its treasures. In all the world, it is perhaps the perfect place to make a stand for wild nature...
...Swearing, cruising taking God's name in vain: five to ten shillings...
...coming to the rescue. Bush's aides concede there is little they an do during the next six weeks to break Perot's grip on the public's attention. But that did not stop the President from calling a rare prime-time press conference last week in a vain bid for network coverage. Only CNN and C-SPAN broadcast the event, which was designed to showcase an angry President pressing a reluctant Congress for a balanced- budget amendment -- an issue that, not coincidentally, has begun to work in Perot's favor. "In the face of a several-hundred-billion-dollar...
...western unions refuse to see that anything they get will be swallowed by inflation," says Meinhard Miegel, head of the Institute for Economy and Society, a Bonn think tank. "They will do nobody any good, not even themselves." Kohl has tried, in vain, to tell workers that. "The simple fact is that we cannot live beyond our means in the long term," he said. "Everyone must be aware that everything now pushed through on the wages side beyond a reasonable level is definitely no longer available for investment and jobs...
Some people speculate that Gates wanted a civic Gotterdammerung -- a traumatic breakdown that would somehow justify his crude law-and-order faith. The Rev. Cecil Murray, an influential black pastor, calls Gates "a proud man, almost a vain man." Murray theorizes, "What better vindication upon those who find him anathema than to let them write for him ((Gates)) a blank check to destroy?" There is, however, no evidence to support any conspiracy theory, and Gates instead blames critics of the L.A.P.D.'S tough tactics for the chaotic police response in the early phases of the rioting. "Police officers...