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Toward the end of last term, Congress approved the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act and passed an omnibus package that provided substantial funding for research institutions, including Harvard...
...there's a great deal of Arab sympathy for the suffering of ordinary Iraqis," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "The perception of an American double standard when the country defying the international community is Israel rather than Iraq adds to Arab opposition." But failure to act decisively could leave U.S. credibility in tatters...
...score one for tree huggers turned fire bombers: the lynx is no longer a forgotten feline. But aside from that meager p.r. coup, the group committed as much an act of self-destructive futility as of terrorism; the fires didn't halt Category III, which Vail Resorts said would proceed more or less on schedule. The blazes won't even delay the start of the ski season...
Some enviro-lefties were sympathetic to the ELFs. "They don't want this to be seen like an act of terrorism," Craig Rosebraugh, spokesman for the Oregon-based Liberation Collective, told the Denver Post. "They instead want this to be seen as an act of love for the environment." But most environmentalists denounced the fires. "Whatever the motive," says Ted Zukoski, an attorney who fought Category III, "it doesn't further the cause...
...clash between Earth First activists trying to save redwoods in California's Humboldt County and the Pacific Lumber Co. [ENVIRONMENT, Sept. 28] was imbalanced and inaccurate. You charged that the Interior Department is engaged in "federal nonfeasance" in negotiating habitat conservation plans (HCPs) with landowners under the Endangered Species Act. The fact is, Congress created the HCP process to reduce conflicts between listed species and economic development. HCPs do provide for long-term conservation of species. HCPs allow us to rely on protected habitats for species across wide tracts of land for years to come, which helps in planning recovery...