Word: environmental
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Wilder, himself a product of segregated education and law school at Howard University, will be the embodiment of state government for the next four years. When he is inaugurated in January, he will command more day-to-day administrative power than any other elected black official in the nation's...
Dukakis had his own solution: further tax increases of $600 million. Dismayed legislators warned that the public would never accept such hikes. As the debt climbed dangerously, Democratic leaders decided Dukakis was unable to accept or even comprehend what had to be done. Worse, the Governor seemed incapable of bringing...
Americans could avoid so many severe environmental crises by merely looking ahead occasionally. What can the Harvard community do? We can look beyond the trendy issues of the day and work to preserve the environment as a whole. A problem shouldn't have to reach emergency proportions and appear on the pages of every publication in the land before people begin to address it. Paper recycling is a great idea, but what about a campus-wide campaign to cut down on the needless waste of electricity and water? A sticker on the inside of dorm room doors saying...
Eric Dlugokinski, a University of Oklahoma psychologist, believes five-year- olds need to spend some time away from home, but, for late bloomers, an academically oriented kindergarten may not be the right environment. If a child does poorly in a first school experience, "that failure is very hard to eradicate...
ENVIRONMENT: Does the Chernobyl cover-up continue?