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...areas, that are safe from the saw. In Oregon about half the state's estimated 3 million acres of old growth cannot be logged because it is unsuitable or designated as wilderness. But that leaves 1.5 million acres of old growth that can be cut. Some of these areas contain no owls and are not likely to be protected...
...magazine was the first new weekly to be produced by the company since the notorious failure of Time Inc.'s TV-CABLE WEEK in 1983 and the shutdown of PICTURE WEEK in 1986 after nine months of test marketing. To promote a creative, entrepreneurial atmosphere and contain costs, Jarvis and publisher Michael Klingensmith set up offices outside the Time & Life Building. Editor- in-chief McManus and his principal deputies -- editorial director Richard Stolley and corporate editor Gilbert Rogin -- paid close attention to the start-up but did not turn to hands-on editing of the magazine until a month...
...continuing "armed struggle" against the government, but in practice that option faded when the A.N.C. agreed to operate as a legal party. In any case, the congress has demonstrated its ineffectiveness at guerrilla warfare over three decades. Violence is not politically useful in South Africa; the white security forces contain it easily. Change there has become inevitable mostly because blacks outnumber whites about 5 to 1 and are becoming stronger politically and economically...
...technique the geologists used was based on another sort of radioactive decay. Organisms contain traces of uranium, which degrades into thorium. The rate of decay is known, and by measuring the relative amounts of the two substances in a sample, age can be accurately calculated...
...fire broke out at a Business School dorm on Wednesday, but the Boston Fire Department was able to contain the flames to one suite of rooms, department officials said...