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Multiple commitments mean multiple offices, and English faculty are scattered across campus: from 45 Dunster St. to Warren House by the Harvard Union to 34 Kirkland St. to 8 Prescott St. There is also Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan C. Heimert's office in Bur Hall, and Gates' office on Mass...
...have helped Israeli restorationists re-create biblical landscapes at Neot Kedumim, a 220-hectare (545-acre) nature reserve in the Judean hills. In similar fashion, the diaries of a 19th century doctor have provided Illinois ecologists with a list of plants that once flourished under the light shade of bur oak trees...
...prairie in two hours," observes Robert Betz, a Northeastern Illinois University biology professor. "But to rebuild it might take half a century or more." Essential to the task is identifying the dynamic process that shaped each ecosystem and, if need be, putting it back into play. Prairies and bur oak woodlands, for instance, were both created by fire. Without fire, their bright flowers and luxuriant grasses are shaded out by invading brush. Where in centuries past roving bands of Plains Indians set fire to the prairies to flush out game, today preserve managers and teams of volunteers set restored grasslands...
...difficult to tell how effective these drives will be so far, students have proven a difficult group to register In 1972, the League of Women Voters launched a national drive targeted at campuses across the nation, with little success Bur the media attention, and the attention from the candidates themselves, that these efforts will draw may help to get young people more excited about flexing political muscle--and that might just start the ball rolling towards greater participation Even if it is too late to recapture that trust of the last generation, there may still be time to involve...
...Brien refused to discuss what the content of the show would be, bur predicted the project would be a success. "We've come up with a lot of ideas that are amazing," O'Brien modesty said, adding; "60 Minutes is really perfect for parody. They're very aggressive...and they penetrate every aspect of society--entertainment, politics, the science community. And they take themselves very seriously...