Word: hills
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DESCENDED. JULIA ("Butterfly") HILL, 25, environmental activist, after a 738-day treetop vigil to save a 600-year-old redwood from loggers; near Stafford, Calif. Hill left her 18-story-high perch after Pacific Lumber Co. agreed to spare the tree, located on company property...
...boycott threat. Mfume seems to have realized that old-line civil rights tactics of boycotts and picket lines hold less sway on the Left Coast than power lunches and air kisses. What finally worked was the same back-room conciliatory politics that made Mfume a force on Capitol Hill for a decade. "Network TV will never again look like it did this fall," Mfume told TIME in an interview. "We're winning on this issue in a way most people thought impossible...
...LAURYN HILL Miseducation? Ha. 'Twas a five-Grammy year. Make album No. 2 good or you're '90s Carole King...
...least 400 teaching vacancies each year, and it's not alone - earlier this year the Department of Labor declared a critical national labor shortage in teaching areas including science, mathematics and bilingual education. In October, Congress approved $1.2 billion for teacher training and hiring, but many on the Hill say the schools won't be able to find qualified teachers to use up the funds...
This year, the council hired Brush Hill Transportation to provide the buses, Darling said...