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Over recent decades the trade became concentrated in the Far East, where ivory ornaments are highly prized. Until this year's trade curbs, Japan, the largest consumer, took in some 40% of the world's ivory, in contrast to about one-third for the U.S. and Europe together. Last year Japanese carvers turned an estimated 64 tons of tusks into as many as a million hanko, or personalized name seals. Much of this ivory was bought from Hong Kong, which has long been the world's ivory marketplace. Between 1979 and 1987, Hong Kong imported 3,900 tons. That represents...
...ears"), the moment echoes the heart-thudding scene between Scarlett O'Hara and Ashley Wilkes ("There ) was a low curious roaring sound in her ears as of seashells being held against them"). Yet despite a plethora of parallel passages, Alberoni denies she has ever read Mitchell's novel. By contrast, Deforges admits that she borrowed heavily from Gone With the Wind -- but only for the first 100 pages. At that point, says Deforges, she tired of the "literary game" and set off on her own tangent about her heroine's adventures in Vichy France...
...Tuesday's vigil, Myette presented a stark contrast to the fiery rhetoric of Jean Wallace-Benjamin, who addressed the crowd in front of the former school building. In a relatively subdued voice, Myette read a statement thanking the marchers for their support but made little mention of the city-wide controversy...
...investigators at the National Cancer Institute, along with scientists from Burroughs Wellcome, discovered in 1984 that the drug blocks the AIDS virus from reproducing. By some estimates, the help provided by the Government scientists eventually allowed Burroughs to hold its development costs to less than $100 million, in contrast to $125 million for the average drug...
...protests, however, have been a sharp contrast to previous episodes of activism at the Law School. Last spring's silent sit-ins calling for minority hiring consistently drew about 50 participants; last week's rally for public service law attracted about 300 students. And this week, Clark was handed a petition signed by 1055 out of about 1600 law students...