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Rudenstine says Harvard would like Congress toestablish a trust fund-a stream of money separatedfrom the Medicare funds and earmarked to bail outteaching hospitals...
When good things are done by rich people, we tend to wonder why. Dallas Cowboys tycoon Jerry Jones, who says he has people highlight passages in books for him so that he doesn't have to read any, gave $1 million to the Library of Congress last Wednesday. Financier George Soros spent some $2 million last year toward making marijuana legal for medical use. Now comes leveraged-buyout mogul Ted Forstmann, who together with Wal-Mart heir John Walton is spending $100 million to give 40,000 scholarships to disadvantaged children who want an alternative to public school. This week...
...wanderer learns a lot about prairie dogs, which are in sharp decline and should be listed as threatened, says the World Wildlife Fund www.panda.org) And about the last Congress, which was insufficiently environmental, according to the League of Conservation Voters www.lcv.org) I download a superb four-part, college-level course on the ozone hole from the University of Cambridge (www.atm.ch.cam.ac.uk/tour/index.html). And I am assured by www.eco.freedom.org/unibomb.htm that Bill Clinton and Al Gore are environmentalists (a deniable charge, surely) and in league with Earth First! and the Unabomber...
...Protection Agency, where she has been a tenacious pollution fighter. The next proof of that will be tough new EPA proposals, expected by the end of the month, for regulations mandating cleaner gasoline and lower limits on auto pollution, particularly from sport utility vehicles. The Administration has pushed through Congress important legislation, such as the California Desert Protection Act, which covers more public land than any other conservation law affecting the Lower 48 states. Clinton and Gore largely beat back--with some exceptions--an assault on environmental laws and regulations by Republicans when they captured the House and Senate...
Computer meltdowns aren't the only threat posed by the Y2K bug. Scam artists are trying to convince people they need to move their money into "Y2K safe" bank accounts, which means giving the crooks the chance to swipe your savings, regulators told Congress last week. Most banks are Y2K compliant--and if not, the FDIC insures each account for as much...