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Over the past year such violent Mohawk vs. Mohawk clashes have become commonplace on the 28,000-acre St. Regis reservation, as a bitter quarrel over lucrative casino operations has escalated into a virtual civil war. Heavily armed pro- and antigambling factions have battled for control of the main road...
Another case closed at Hogan's Alley, training academy for would-be G-men and G-women who dream of becoming agents for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This year about 500 trainees will attend classes in frisking, lectures on handcuffing, armed-arrest laboratories and seminars on interrogating witnesses at...
Even with good grades and high test scores, I should have known that I was courting rejection by the sheer act of applying. The odds of getting into schools like Harvard and Dartmouth that year were worse than 1 out of 4. Perhaps if I had lived somewhere distant like...
What can one boy or girl do to preserve the world's rain forests? Ask Jiro Nakayama. He's the twelve-year-old leader of a band of schoolchildren in Nagano, Japan, who have already saved 40 acres of forest land in Costa Rica. On their way to and from...
The program began in Sweden, where some 100,000 schoolchildren, helped by matching government grants, have been able to buy 160,000 acres of Costa Rican forest. A similar venture affiliated with the Nature Conservancy has enlisted thousands of U.S. students to preserve 110,000 acres of tropical parkland in...