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...action down at City Hall last spring, a first-term city councillor offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
...part of an industry-wide drive to cut costs, most of today's gold mines are surface, or open-pit, operations, a method used in copper and coal mining. The new excavations can take as long as eight years to start up, but then can handle thousands of tons of low-grade ore daily. The latest mines make use of a chemical technique called heap leaching to reduce costs. The procedure involves the spraying of crude ore with a cyanide solution that absorbs microscopic amounts of gold as it filters through the heaps of rock. After further processing...
...leaching process retrieves even marginal deposits. One place where the method will be used is Angels Camp, Calif., about 120 miles east of San Francisco. Angels Camp provided Mark Twain with notebooks full of prospecting lore for his short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Today workers for the Carson Hill gold-mining company are blasting and carving out a 1,100-acre open-pit site. When it begins full operation in October, the Carson Hill venture will be the first commercial gold mine to open in the Angels Camp area since 1950. The company's general manager...
...Wharton School. One shortcoming that some critics perceive: although business-school alumni still rate first in management skills, they may not be on the cutting edge of economic and market theory. Bok seems to have agreed with this assessment. In a 1979 report he noted that "the case method actually limits the time available for students to master analytic techniques and conceptual material." The B-school agreed and has been ventilating the case method while essentially defending it. Says Senior Associate Dean Joseph Bower, with pride in his school's management training: "One can be effective by working with...
...turned out scenes with the same laissez-faire approach to composition. But in general, the exemplary pictures of the . camera-reporting tradition have bowed to pictorial convention, treating the edges of the frame like a proscenium arch around a quickly readable image. Anyone who doubts that this time-honored method can still be affecting need only look to David Burnett's elegant and straightforward pictures of minor league baseball. But Burnett is the odd man out in this show, where the prevailing tone is more hectic or quizzical...