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...York Republican Gerald Solomon, the current ban is too inflexible and should be replaced with one which allows members to accept gifts worth up to $50, the maximum amount now allowed in the Senate. TIME's James Carney says the panel's initiative will most likely die on the vine: "It probably won't go anywhere, because the House passed this thing with a lot of self congratulation, and to back off it now would open up it to a lot of ridicule. It's like voting for a pay raise: While it may be justified, it's like committing...
Recall the Flavr Savr, a tomato bioengineered to ripen on the vine and last months on the shelf. It might have been a huge moneymaker if only the thing had tasted like a tomato. Its maker, Calgene Inc., traded above $20 a share in 1992, but the stock subsequently rotted to $5, and Monsanto Co. has offered to buy the company for $7.25 a share...
Travel six miles up a dirt road in Oklahoma's Ozarks and you will reach a 400-acre, semi-religious encampment called Elohim City. There you will find a vine-covered structure roofed over with polyurethane foam, looking oddly like the cottage in the tale of Hansel and Gretel. This is the Worship House. Within it Elohim's spiritual father, Robert Millar, 71, preaches a mix of Christian Scripture and heterodox tales of Germanic, Celtic and Scandinavian tribes--the true Israelites who will provide God's terrible soldiers at Armageddon. Lately, though, the elfin, white-bearded patriarch of the Christian...
...power in 1933 and fired him. Ropke went into exile in Switzerland but in the late 1940s served as a top adviser to Ludwig Erhard, architect of Germany's "economic miracle." Ropke warned of "the tendency for the increasingly centralized state of our times to surround like a parasitical vine both society and economy." In books such as A Humane Economy, he advocated a "Third Way"--neither freewheeling capitalism nor a state-run economy. He stressed "those mysterious powers of the human soul and of human society which cannot be expressed in mathematical equations." It is this aspect of Ropke...
...There will be an initial mailing go people whohave used the dental service in the past,"Thompson said. "Every student will receive abrochure and application in their registrationpacket or through their proctor. It will be postedonline--it's available in through VINE...