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...likely to build. A dozen major federal construction projects now on the drawing boards could be stymied under the law as it now stands. (Largest among that dangerous dozen is Maine's proposed $559 million Dickey Lincoln Dam, which environmentalists contend threatens the Furbish lousewort, a weed protected under the law.) In addition, the Interior Department may add 1,000 plants and 100 animals to its endangered species list, a move that could eventually hold up even more construction. Environmentally concerned legislators in the House last week were scrambling to gain support for a compromise funding bill already passed...
...least seven times in the past two months, a thief has broken into the district attorney's office in Sequoyah County, Okla., sniffed out the marijuana cache kept in plastic evidence bags, and made off with some of the weed. The intruder has never been seen, but police think they have a pretty accurate description: stands 3 in. tall, weighs about an ounce, has slick brown hair, beady little eyes and a long tail, is prone to staggering, even on four feet...
Stirred by dramatic TV shots of derring-do afield, badgered by friends, family and physicians to stop smoking and start shaping up, armchair athletes all over America in far greater numbers than before are becoming the weekend warriors of sport. But the years, and the gin and the weed and the encroaching flab, have taken their toll. The net result can be painful, and sometimes lethal...
...photo of a puppy with a gun to its head was accompanied by the headline, IF YOU DON'T BUY THIS MAGAZINE, WE'LL KILL THIS DOG. Off-Broadway audiences recall The National Lampoon Show of 1975, in which Gilda Radner playing Patty Hearst machine-gunned Steven Weed. Lampoon writers routinely savage Kennedys, Nixons, Third World peasants and American capitalists. No one, alive or dead, is sacred. The Lampoon's last issue included a fictional letter to the editor in which "Larry Flynt" referred to himself as "the George Wallace of porn." With this kind of animus...
LIKE HOPE AND CRABGRASS, Richard Nixon springs eternal. Ever since the Great Fall in 1974, no matter how you tried to weed the fellow out, he was always there, always flashing the nervous smile from under the properly crinkled ski-jump nose, forever sweating in the midst of an air-conditioned world. And always reminding you that he ran your life for five eminently regrettable years. Still, until recently, there was always an element of "fun" in the game--every time Dick popped out from under his California rock, you could, hoe him right back under again with...