Word: diane
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There is a goofy nobility about these domestic scenes that leads one to ask: What do gorillas think about? Certainly not about making off with Fay Wray or Dian Fossey. Food, safety and building a nest for the night seem uppermost in those broad, sloping heads. Females in estrus have one thing on their minds: mating with their leaders who, in turn, worry about rivals. Kinship bonds are strong; encounters between unrelated groups can be bloody, and sometimes fatal to the young. Indeed infanticide occurs often enough to constitute a serious problem for the ape image...
Jubail and Yanbu, which is under construction 700 miles to the southwest on the Red Sea, represent an Ozyman-dian-scale hedge by Saudi Arabia against the eventual depletion in 65 years of its 165 billion bbl. of proven crude oil reserves. The cities, replete with petrochemical complexes, refineries, a steel mill and smaller secondary industries by the dozen, will be counted on to help keep the Saudi economy vibrant and the country's small but rapidly growing population employed and enjoying a rising living standard far into the 21st century...
...Cornell University; Edward Kadletz, assistant professor of Classics at Ball State University (Ind.); Kent Kraft, assistant professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia; Elaine T. May, assistant professor of History of American Civilization at the University of Minnesota; Heather McClave, assistant professor of English at the College; Dian Murray, assistant professor of History and East Asian Languages at Linfield College (Ore.); Stephen M. Poppel '65, assistant professor of History at Bryn Mawr College; and Ines M. Talamantez, assistant professor of Religion at the University of California at Santa Barbara...