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Despite all the new duties filling up his schedule, however, the Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry still finds time to work in his lab every Friday afternoon, Saturday and Sunday.
The visa lottery -- it's been dubbed the Irish sweepstakes -- has enterprising immigrants filling out hundreds of applications in the hope of improving their chances. Fears that revealing their names and addresses will make them vulnerable to arrest and deportation have been muted because the names are being collected by...
Restorationists make use of the annual floods that stimulate the growth of riverine forests, flush out wetlands and rejuvenate them with fertile silt. Deprived of high-water surges, wetlands quickly die. In the 1960s, for example, flood-control canals transformed South Florida's wild Kissimmee River from a sinuous network...
But mediocrity doesn't seem to concern the President or the Senate right now. Whether or not a person would be good at a job, especially an important job where lives and principles hang in the balance, need not be considered when filling posts. All that matters are the two...
And yet the revolution has unquestionably come to town. When local officials met on the second day of the attempted coup to decide their response, some 5,000 demonstrators gathered outside in support of Boris Yeltsin. The timely show of "people power" helped tip the balance, and now the Russian...