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WASHINGTON, D. C.: As Congress quietly returned to work this week after a three-week vacation, the House advanced its version of the "Freedom to Farm" bill, a major piece of agriculture legislation with the potential to roll back crop-subsidy programs born in the Great Depression. The bill would wean wheat, corn and cotton farmers off the current system of crop supports by replacing it with a seven-year program of declining, fixed payments. Subsidies of peanuts and sugar remain in place, to the chagrin of some members on both sides of the aisle. House leaders have limited...
...hard to describe what this version of Quake is. id has said repeatedly that it's simply a test of the game's core engine, and not an alpha version, beta test or demo...
Longtime DOOMers may initially be shocked by how rough this Quake test is. There are no monsters or menu screens, and only three small levels. Running this test version is not for the faint of heart; it confronts the player with an interface modeled on Unix programming languages...
Despite the rough edges of this test version, Quake has drawn rave reviews from 'Net users for the power of its three-dimensional engine and the more exciting Deathmatches built into the software...
...tell" policy was enacted in 1994. In some cases, the report alleges, the military goes so far as to question parents, friends and therapists of servicemen suspected of being gay. A compromise between President Clinton, Congress and the military, the law is a watered-down version of Clinton's initial goal which has not satisfied gay activists. The Pentagon, traditionally advocating military regulation barring gay servicemen, grudgingly accepts the policy since it in effect allows the military to continue dismissing gays. "The law is very fuzzy, subjective and subject to interpretation", says TIME's Mark Thompson, "and it is adhered...