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...tactics used to combat them are changing fast. Chemicals are out; biologicals are in. Dumping poisons indiscriminately is no longer in vogue; figuring out ecologically correct ways to get mosquitoes to do themselves in is all the rage. "The era of insecticides is coming to an end," says Donald Barnard, the Mosquito Unit's chief. "They're still our first line of defense. But the bugs adapt very quickly to whatever we throw at them. The emphasis now is on outsmarting them, and to do that you have to understand their behavior...
...experience, to a great extent. I entered the work force at a time in the early '70s that many of us saw as the Golden Age of expanding opportunities for women. I was teaching at Barnard College, which was a leading center of women's studies. But when I began to have children, I discovered that a lot of people seemed to feel women were somehow cheating if they asked for things like maternity leave. Feminists said I was asking for "special privileges, a free ride." The men on the faculty told me that getting pregnant would jeopardize my chances...
...reforming zeal, however, Richards has not completely turned away from politics as usual. She has rewarded several fat-cat campaign contributors with appointments -- among them Walter Umphrey to the parks and wildlife department and Barnard Rapoport to the University of Texas board of regents. She has sidestepped some prickly issues: refusing to help devise a court- ordered plan for equalizing school funding and to introduce a state income tax to ease Texas' $4.6 billion budget shortfall. "Her honeymoon is over," , warns Tom Craddick, leader of the Republican legislative caucus. "She needs to draw up a budget to show...
...Bois was born in New York City and graduated from Barnard College in 1927 with a bachelor's degree. She received a master's from Columbia University in 1929 and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley...
...Sears is determined to upgrade and expand its fashion lines, but in stores better known for Kenmore washing machines, Craftsman tools and Weatherbeater paints, women's fashions have suffered a persistent image problem. Says Kurt Barnard, publisher of the Retail Marketing Report: "Ask the average woman if she would care to wear a Sears Roebuck cocktail dress. It's an oxymoron...