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Steelhead Hopes. Originally an ocean fish, the alewife could not penetrate very far into the Great Lakes until the 1930s, when rebuilding of the Welland Canal provided it with a convenient bypass around Niagara Falls. Even so, their numbers remained relatively small until the 1950s, when the sea lamprey-also an oceanic interloper-wiped the Great Lakes clean of the trout and burbot that were feeding on alewives. Too small a target for the lamprey (which is now being eliminated by chemical controls), and left with no natural enemies, the alewives promptly began a population explosion...
...follow the federal mere-evidence rule, which stemmed from the idea that the Fourth Amendment protected a person's private property from seizure. Unless the Government or the complainant could assert a superior interest in the property, said Gouled, the suspect was entitled to keep it. Straining to bypass the rule, courts have since typically barred original tax records or checks as the property of the accused and therefore mere evidence-while admitting photographic copies...
Thousands of cases have been pending in local and federal district courts for years. In the crush, prosecutors and magistrates are tempted to bypass the judicial process by dismissing many cases wholesale. Snowed under by the work load, harried judges seldom have the time to learn what they should about the man in the dock. Sentences are handed down to fit the crime, not the defendant...
...case of kidneys at least, the supply of organs has been sufficient for a total of 1,200 transplants. But some 500 of these have failed, in nearly every case because the immune reaction led to rejection of the transplant. Now new ways are being explored to bypass the barrier; last week specialists in surgery and immunology from all over the U.S. met at Duke University to hear about them...
Prime Decision. This week the powerful working committee of the Congress Party will convene in New Delhi to talk about who should be Prime Minister when a new government is formed in April. If the party decides to bypass Indira, the choice is most likely to fall on Morarji Desai, 71, the ascetic longtime Finance Minister in Nehru's Cabinet, who won re-election by the biggest (80%) margin of any leading Congress Party politician...