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...nation last June convened its first gathering in many generations, and passed a tribal resolution calling upon the Government to prohibit oil exploration or development in the refuge. Says Abel Tritt, a Gwich'in elder: "We don't worry about ourselves but about the herds, and the animals that depend on the herds. If the herd goes, they go, and then...
...Eskimos in Kaktovik also hunt caribou, but they depend more heavily on the sea, where captains like Isaac Akootchook go out in 18-ft. boats after seal and bowhead whale. The Inupiat (as they prefer to be called), who chose to participate in the 1971 claims settlement, have benefited from oil revenues in the form of a school, a community center and other projects. "We feel caught in the middle," says Akootchook. "We don't like exploration, but if we oppose it and they impose it anyway, we get nothing...
Projects such as Burley's depend upon the Arboretum's plant and written libraries for much of their basic research. Without the wide-ranging collection of Southeast Asian plants the arboretum holds, Burley says his work would be very difficult...
Barbara Ehrenreich, a writer and chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, said the legalization of abortion should not depend on the rights of the fetus but on the rights of the woman...
About 20 U.S. companies, mostly young and small, are manufacturing biometric systems. Major customers include such security-conscious institutions as the military, nuclear plants, research labs and banks. The ultimate success of biometrics, however, will depend on broad business and consumer acceptance. Proponents hope the technology will someday be standard in companies, stores and homes...