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Some women create home-based businesses in an effort to forge a better interface between their jobs and their children. California biologist Tiffany Yuen Hollfelder, 33, used to work full time as a data analyst for a consulting firm. Shortly before her daughter Robyn was born in 1996, she went into the consulting business for herself, cutting back to part time and working from home. "I was actually a bit more productive at home because there weren't meetings to go to or people stopping by to talk," says Hollfelder, whose mother helped out with child care. Then last June...
...complaints, the state is clamping down. Next week, for the first time in 30 years, hunters will be allowed to shoot bears. The two-day target harvest is 175, and if that's not met, archers will try for kills in October. "People are fed up," says state wildlife biologist Bob Eriksen. "The bears are attacking dogs, disrupting barbeques. We handled 1,700 complaints last year--up 85% since 1995. All I do is bear control...
...dismay the bear in her yard will live, for now. When biologist Eriksen arrives, he finds the animal barely whimpering. Madonia shoots her with a tranquilizer and pours water over her belly to cool her down. They tag her, fit a radio transmitter around her neck and extract a baby tooth to study. Then they release her in a wildlife-management area, shooting her with rubber buckshot as she scampers off. That's what Eriksen calls "attitude conditioning," intended to instill a fear of humans. But that fear is often overcome when hunger meets the smell of stale baked goods...
...conclusive answer to this question has yet to come. Losey himself is not yet convinced that Bt corn poses a grave danger to North America's monarch-butterfly population, but he does think the issue deserves attention. And others agree. "I'm not anti biotechnology per se," says biologist Rebecca Goldberg, a senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, "but I would like to have a tougher regulatory regime. These crops should be subject to more careful screening before they are released...
...surf. But he had smarts. As a draft-eligible nonstudent, he says, he got the highest score of 35,000 recruits on a Navy intelligence test. Trained as a hospital corpsman, he saw North Vietnam's devastating Tet offensive in 1968. Says his wife Claire Fraser, a prominent molecular biologist: "Vietnam changed him. It impressed on him the idea that time is precious, that you have to make every single minute of every single day count...