Word: clark
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...many of the 3,000 human inhabitants of the flat, arid area are going broke trying to raise wheat or cattle. If their lands were combined into a cooperative and replanted with native grasses, says Scott, the area could support wild animals on a scale ; unseen since Lewis and Clark came through in 1805. Tourists would flock in to watch the deer and the antelope play, hunters to stalk elk and perhaps 75,000 bison. Scott presented his plan in Missoula last month to the nonprofit Institute of the Rockies and heard nary a discouraging word. The institute is raising...
Youngsters may not fully understand the finality of their action. Chicago Psychologist David C. Clark calls this the Tom Sawyer syndrome, in which teens imagine they are staging their own death. Says Barbara Wheeler, a suicide- prevention specialist in Omaha: "I don't think they think about being dead. They think it's a way of ending pain and solving a problem...
...Sowell is a dedicated conservative (though he dislikes such labels) much admired in the Reagan Administration & and elsewhere. He has won considerable attention for his attacks on affirmative action, school busing and various black leaders. While he likes to ascribe the unconstrained viewpoint to unauthoritative authorities like Ramsey Clark, Sowell often attributes the constrained vision to masters like Oliver Wendell Holmes, who provides some splendid dicta. For example, "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience." And, "Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect...
...University of Chicago; Marcel Cornis-Pop, University of Northern Iowa; Robert O. Gjerdingen, Carelton College; Susan A. Keefe, Davidson College; Ellen F. Martin, Marymount Manhatten College; Carol J. Oja, Brooklyn College; Frederick S. Paxton, Connecticut College; Frances L. Restuccia, Boston College; Margaret Schabas, University of Colorado; Rhys F. Townsend, Clark University; Daniel Vickers, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Marc A. Weiner, Indiana University...
Nidle, a 28-year-old graduate of Clark University, seems to embody the magazine's purpose. A former homeless person, he currently lives in Cambridge and collects unemployment insurance. His unheated office in Central Square is littered with drawings, strange objects, typed manuscripts, and obscure publications from around the country...