Word: storming
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Kimberly Carr, 10, of Montgomery, Vt., recycles her garbage and is designing a board game in which the goal is to save the elephants. Elizabeth Bayley, 17, is active in a Seattle-based youth group that organizes tree plantings, stencils storm drains with dump no waste notices and monitors pollution in Puget Sound. Jeremiah Johnson, 10, from Brentwood, N.Y., puts his McDonald's detritus in recycling bins, tells his mother how long it takes each shopping bag to biodegrade and intervenes whenever his younger brother is about to commit an environmental outrage, like pulling the legs off a defenseless...
Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams stirred yet another accounting storm last week by declaring that as of Nov. 29, five allies that had agreed to kick in $6.7 billion in cash and kind by Dec. 31 had so far ponied up only $3.6 billion. Two-thirds of that came from Kuwait, which had promised $2.5 billion and paid exactly that much. (Critics nonetheless point out that the Kuwaiti financial empire is worth an estimated $100 billion.) By Williams' figures, Japan had pledged $2 billion but had paid only $476 million; Germany had paid a mere $337 million of a promised...
Within hours, Harvard Yard is crowded with peace protesters. Within a few days, students storm University Hall and shut down the College. Police and National Guard units finally restore order, at least until the first draft notices appear at doorsteps...
...plans to perform an in- orbit service call on the space telescope in 1993. In the meantime, pictures from the Hubble can be sharpened by computer enhancement. The telescope has taken some surprisingly good shots, including images of a gas jet streaming from a newborn star and a huge storm on Saturn...
...group, which was formed after a storm of campus protest spurred by several published remarks of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, will begin meeting shortly before winter break to discuss plans for revamping the Administrative Board's methods of handling harassment cases, said Assistant Dean for Coeducation Janet A. Viggiani...