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Fortunately, at least a few members of Congress seem willing to fight off their fellow flag wavers. Both Rep. Don Edwards (D-Calif.), head of the House constitutional rights subcommittee, and House Speaker Thomas Foley (D-Wash.) say they oppose such amendments...
...bandwagon, Harvard can now cash in on its prestigious name--something that merchants and their suppliers have been doing for some time now. "The selling of the name," as some derisively call it, is a multi-million dollar enterprise that involves manufacturers as distant from Harvard Yard as Spokane, Wash., merchants as close as Mass. Ave. and consumers from all parts of the world...
Rampaging floodwaters continued to wash catastrophe across the Southwest last week, the Trinity River wreaking havoc from Dallas southward while the swollen Arkansas and Red rivers pitched into homes and fields in Arkansas, where Governor Bill Clinton declared 29 counties disaster areas. At the Texas- Oklahoma border, waters rushing out of overfilled Lake Texoma ravaged a popular summer restaurant-disco-and-marina complex. By the weekend the unruly Trinity was menacing East Texas with still larger troubles. "The river's going crazy," said National Weather Service hydrologist Ernest Cathey in Fort Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding...
...their 3,000-acre spread near Bowdle, S. Dak., by planting wheat, sunflowers, soybeans and corn in fields littered by the debris from earlier harvests. "That trash," says Wilbert, "serves an important purpose. It helps feed the soil, and it allows the water to soak in and not wash off into lakes and streams." Last year the Blumhardts' fields produced an average of 27 bu. of wheat an acre, 30% more than conventional farms in the area...
...disease begins to run rampant through the community, gay men begin to realize that it will not provide a glamorous, Dark Victory-style degeneration. Any illness can be ugly, and so can the response to it. Amid a sickroom's strained bonhomie, Willy (Campbell Scott) tiptoes away to wash off the light kiss of an infected friend. But others find the option of heroic devotion. David, now nursemaid to the ailing Sean, covers up when Sean's boss calls, and diapers the incontinent patient. Because David is also standing a potential deathwatch on his future, his caring grace is spectacular...