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Kidd's success in relating to students will depend upon how open their minds are, Steiner said...
...ecological collapse as a result of an infestation of goats and burros. The goat population is so large (50,000 to 75,000) that between 100 and 150 kids are born every day. The goats knock down cacti and trees and munch on the vegetation on which the tortoises depend, while the burros trample the tortoise nests. Elsewhere on Isabela, dogs have eaten most of the land iguanas. On Santiago, goats, pigs, burros, cows and rats have wreaked havoc on the native plant communities. Fire ants and two types of alien wasps have taken hold on several islands, as have...
This is a false choice. In the absence of successful disarmament by all sides, the President has committed the U.S. to training and equipping Bosnian forces. The Administration recognizes that Bosnia's security will depend in the long run on its own strengths, and not international guarantees. However, it will take more than the will to peace to secure a settlement. In this climate of distrust, agreements will have great difficulty finding their way off paper, unless we can find a way to assure all sides that agreements will be upheld...
Will such efforts develop beyond bare beginnings? Much may depend on Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali; and his record in promoting reform is, to put it charitably, mixed. One example: while the U.N. generates a mountain of policy statements and proclamations about women's rights, its own record as an equal-opportunity employer is poor. By this year women were supposed to hold 25% of executive jobs, but the actual figure will be only about 16.6%. The reason, says Ciceil Gross, former president of the Group on Equal Rights for Women at the U.N., is that "there is no will...
...every evidentiary twist and turn was witnessed by the entire nation. The same values-free commercialism that enabled Simpson to become a best-selling author while still in jail is now turning against him. The controversy surrounding him has made Simpson too much of a risk for those who depend on the goodwill of a mass audience...