Scientists at the country's national laboratories have projected enormous energy savings if the government takes aggressive steps to encourage conservation in homes, factories, offices, appliances, cars and power plants. Ralph Reed, former point man for the Christian Coalition and more recently an Atlanta political consultant, was elected chairman of the Georgia Republican Party on Saturday. His election came after a bruising campaign marked by warnings that his Christian-right conservatism would do the party more harm than good and set back major election advances made in recent years. Macedonia's prime minister said Saturday he plans to ask Parliament to declare a state of war, hours after soldiers hammered ethnic Albanian rebel positions with artillery fire in an escalating offensive. For 14 years, the Gold Club has been the destination of choice for a restless segment of the city's huge convention business, clusters of boisterous men eager to spend precious evenings away from home in the company of nude dancers and expensive cigars.
Shuttle buses to the club leave regularly from the city's best hotels.
Barbara Porter was the first to cross the line, and it was very much a premeditated act. She had reached her limit with the mowing, the mulching, the weeding, the watering, the fertilizing, the thatching, the whole range of green-lawn pathologies. Jenya Vlasko was born without a left arm and a left leg. Her right foot is deformed and useless. Social experts say her case exemplifies a larger problem confronting so-called special needs children, who have little hope of being adopted and appear to be doomed to grow up in institutions.