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...regions of inhabited Quebec, and three rivers farther to the south. Though the Crees have unsuccessfully fought the project for two decades, they now have a reasonable chance of at least stalling it when the courts rule on the case this summer. Growing environmental concern and worries about an uncertain economic climate have led some opinion leaders in Quebec to question the wisdom of spending as much as $31 billion on more dams. What particularly outrages the Crees is that Quebec doesn't need all that power, some of which may be sold to New England and New York...
...area is a product called Daminex, which is a tube filled with pesticide-soaked cotton. Mice take the cotton to build nests, and the pesticide kills ticks. On Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, scientists are planning to release large numbers of a tiny wasp called Hunterellus hookeri. Success is uncertain. The wasps do kill some tick nymphs, but may in fact need a large and healthy tick population to maintain their own numbers. Other drastic preventives that householders mutter about while untaping their trousers -- region-wide burning of fields, pesticide spraying or slaughter of deer -- are just not politically...
With the July 1 departure of Bok, internationalization will lose its architect and most prominent supporter. It remains uncertain whether Rudenstine shares Bok's passionate vision for a more global Harvard...
ALTHOUGH HIS plans for the distant future are uncertain, Gallagher will be going enrolling next fall in UCLA's M.A./Ph.D. program in history. Before that, he plans to travel to Israel and the Near East this summer. Career plans include such things as television journalism or a professorship...
...coming year. At its annual meeting last month, chairman John Akers told stockholders to brace for more bad news: "While we'd like to believe economic recovery is just around the corner, we have seen no evidence yet to indicate any improvement, and consequently the year remains uncertain." The IBM empire is striking back. In a marketing effort unparalleled in its 80-year history, the company launched an all-out offensive to retain current markets and recapture lost turf. The past 11 months have brought virtually nonstop announcements of new products, including a laptop computer, a home computer...