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...guide will contain only statistical evaluations of the smaller classes, however, because written evaluations would be too costly, said Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Steven E. Ozment, who chairs...
...long been a battleground between environmentalists and energy companies. Interior Secretary Donald Hodel renewed the debate last week by proposing that a section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge be opened to drilling. He would permit exploration on 1.5 million acres of the 19-million-acre preserve, which could contain between 600 million and 9 billion bbl. of crude. Conservationists contend that drilling would disturb the region's delicate ecosystem for little reason: a strike, they claim, would add just 4% to U.S. oil reserves. Canada also objects to drilling, for fear that caribou migration patterns would be disrupted. Hodel...
University officials said they do not know which buildings on campus contain asbestos. They added that virtually all buildings constructed before 1978 contain at least some asbestos, which can cause cancer when inhaled...
...ironically, as Man learns more and more he seems to be able to fit his knowledge into less and less space. Current computers that contain the sum total of human knowledge are no bigger than a man's thumb, and are shrinking every day. Soon the devices for storing knowledge will be far too small to read from, and the great advances of civilization will be lost...
...their institution. Hospitals around the U.S. may be "trimming their staffs too far down," says Dr. Dennis O'Leary, president of the Chicago-based Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. O'Leary suggests that the ongoing war between the "money people and the clinical people" at hospitals struggling to contain costs may be taking a toll on quality...