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...Minn.-Duluth (4) (24-7-1) 118 3. Harvard (12-4-1) 96 4. Wisconsin (22-10) 84 5. Northeastern (17-10-1) 50 6. B.C. (17-9-2) 49 7. Michigan State (21-8-2) 43 8. Minnesota (22-10) 40 9. N. Dakota (20-11-1) 33 10. Bowling Green...
...river otters. Colorado gave away pine martens, a relative of the weasel, for otters from Wisconsin. An official from Minnesota plans to travel to Alaska to get 50 trumpeter swan eggs. In one of the more elaborate wildlife trades to date, Idaho sent 50 chukar partridges to North Dakota, which sent 150 sharp-tailed grouse to Kansas, which sent 50 wild turkeys to Idaho. The trading has even taken on an international flavor. Michigan made an across-the-border swap with Canada: wild turkeys for moose. "It's like trading baseball cards," says Steven Gray, an Ohio wildlife official...
...future as it was conceived in a more hopeful past. It is a neat trick. This strain of the new-wave sensibility is an ironic mixture of nostalgia and contempt, simultaneously mock futurist and mock historicist. The allusions are to old television and B movies. At the Whitney, Dakota Jackson's UFO-shaped Saturn stool (1976) and R.M. Fischer's enormous, intimidating Max lamp (1983) are like fakey props from 1950s science-fiction films. Burton's saw-toothed aluminum chair (1980-81) seems to be a throne awaiting a space-age dictator, Dune-style. Bruce Tomb's wood-and-granite...
Former South Dakota Senator James Abourezk, founder and head of the ADC, agrees. The fire, he said last week, "must surely be linked" to two recent bombings aimed at his group. In August two Boston police officers were badly injured while trying to defuse a bomb found outside the ADC's office. After the Achille Lauro hijacking in October, the ADC's West Coast director Alex Odeh, 41, was fatally wounded after he appeared on Cable News Network saying it was time for Americans to "understand the Palestinian side of the story." When he opened the door to the organization...
Hall, who in previous years had gone to the Dakota to commemorate the anniversary of Lennon's death, vividly remembers the day he heard that his idol had been slain. He said he was so distraught upon hearing about it that he almost lost...