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...rival cocaine refiners in Cali and elsewhere have stepped in to fill the void. Raw coca from Bolivia and Peru is plentiful and will remain so. Leaders of the Andean governments have rejected U.S. State Department plans for wholesale eradication, arguing that such an approach would starve and radicalize hundreds of thousands of peasants for whom coca leaves are a valuable cash crop. Moreover, heroin is making a frightening comeback in some areas. Thanks to bumper crops of opium in insurgent-controlled northeastern Burma, Southeast Asian heroin traffickers are flooding New York and New Jersey with moderately priced, high-quality...
...Harvard effort to fill the imposing gap has got off to a modest start, boosted by the announcement last week that Milwaukee superintendent Robert Peterkin had resigned his embattled post to direct the program. Ten students, seven of them minority-group members, have begun a three-year doctoral exercise that includes a six-month internship in an urban superintendent's office. The effort is mercifully short on theory and long on experience and real life. Students -- most with more than a decade in public education -- role-play different sides in past labor negotiations, face local television reporters and ponder administrative...
...billion-a-year industry burgeoning both as a business and a science. "There is no more growth in world fisheries, no more new native stocks to discover," says Ron Rogness, executive director of the National Aquaculture Council, based in Washington. "We're going to have to fill the void, and aquaculture is the best opportunity...
Some organizations define this impact more closely than others, seeking to fill a specific role in higher education support circles...
...they seem to get Sanders Theater for their concerts at the drop of a hat? They might have the ability to fill the theater, but so might a student musical or play if given the chance...