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From this widespread disapproval result euphemisms that cloud the purpose of affirmative action but make the procedures themselves more palatable...
...important environmental battle seemed to be lost, a catastrophe imminent. "We were terribly disappointed that the ship broke apart before we could salvage the oil," says Sian Pullen, a marine-conservatio n officer with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "This is a horrible disaster: a toxic cloud of chemicals is spreading through the water." At first the area around Fitful Head was fouled by the oil. Birds such as the shag and the great northern diver became coated with crude and died. Whipped up by the 90-m.p.h. winds, an oily mist spread over the southern...
Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Ann Blackman, Margaret Carlson, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver, Adam Zagorin Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Sally B. Donnelly, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David S. Jackson...
Over the next four years, a 1.3-m telescope on Mount Stromlo, in Australia, mounted with sophisticated digital cameras, will methodically search for MACHOs by peering at stars in the nearby dwarf galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. If MACHOs exist, explains physicist Christopher Stubbs of the University of California at Santa Barbara, who helped design the experiment, they should occasionally pass between the earth and these background stars. Because gravity bends light, the MACHOs would act as lenses, causing the stars temporarily to brighten enough for the cameras to detect...
BUREAUS: Suzanne Davis (Director of Administration) Chief Political Correspondent: Michael Kramer Washington Contributing Editor: Hugh Sidey Senior Correspondents: David Aikman, Jonathan Beaty, Sandra Burton, Barry Hillenbrand, J. Madeleine Nash, Bruce van Voorst Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Margaret Carlson, Ann Blackman, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, S.C. Gwynne, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Sally B. Donnelly, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth, Patrick E. Cole San Francisco: David...