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They can sound fairly impressive now, though trends based on small numbers are inherently fluky and dollar figures may depend on what point a bureaucracy's accountants want to make. In the 13 parks of the Rocky Mountain region, there were eight fatal climbing accidents and 63 rescues last year (total cost: $179,000) and six deaths and 40 rescues (cost: $247,000) the year before. In the Western region national parks, including Yosemite, there were no fatalities and 103 rescues last year, and one fatality and 56 rescues in 1991. Rescues there were far more expensive...
Council members say they hope such incidents do not recur next fall. They say the revamped council will benefit from its new bylaws. But even if the bureaucratic solution proves to be sound, the efficacy of the council seems to depend more on how resolute the members are in pursuing a coherent agenda than on how rigorously a list of rules frames their work...
...When I was an undergraduate, someone told me that the value of my degree in 25 years would depend on Harvard's role in the world then," says Koivumaki. "I am proud to be working here, trying to maintain the excellence we exhibit...
...talk of the whole country is the economy; the survival of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani could depend on how well he handles economic problems and the discontent they breed. No one is suggesting he could lose his re- election bid in voting scheduled for June 11, but his personal survival may be at risk. There were reports of an assassination attempt on the President last February, and full-blown riots swept three major cities last year during protests against unemployment and poor housing...
Whether adolescents become sexually active seems to depend to a large extent on peer pressure at a particular school. Some schools go so far as to ban dating, but at others "it's embarrassing if you haven't had sex, and you're under pressure to lose your virginity quickly," says Tsunetsugu Munakata, associate professor of health at Tsukuba University. "At one school I heard students would go to love hotels in their uniforms," declares Tetsuya Iizuka, 19, who lost his virginity four years ago, an experience "that made me the center of attention in high school...