Word: champaign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report was widely praised round the world-and also subjected to some telling criticism. The most blistering attack has been launched by Julian Simon, a professor of economics and business administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the winter issue of the Public Interest, a neoconservative quarterly, Simon charges that the presidential panel and staff who wrote the report consisted almost entirely of well known Cassandras of the environmental movement. In making their predictions Simon argues, these prophets of doom relied on shoddy research and dubious analytical tools...
...borne chiefly by bark beetles from tree to tree-costs $100 million a year, to say nothing of the aesthetic price. In many Northern cities, once shaded thoroughfares are treeless and barren. In Milwaukee, where more than 100,000 elms flourished in 1956, barely one-fifth still stand. In Champaign-Urbana, Ill., there were 14,000 elms at the end of World War II. Now there are only 220. A celebrated loss occurred a year and a half ago, when one of the most venerable elms on the White House lawn, a 105-ft. giant planted in the days...
...three-part series looks into every field. One of the photographic teams visits another scientist, Dr. Ralph Nelson of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, who is trying to learn the secrets of hibernation in bears. Unlike humans, who simply waste away when they go without food for long periods, hibernating bears exist for months on only excess...
Roland A. White Champaign...