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Scott said that a search that began in February ended with Quincy's selection from a field of about a dozen serious candidates. "We found him very much committed to the principles of affirmative action and to constructively helping Harvard to solve the problems it has," said Scott, who served on the search committee which picked Quincy...
...handwriting samples with welfare applications that Eytina had filled out in Albany. Grinage and her husband evidently returned to the U.S. in 1971. That year, Austin was killed by police as he tried to rob a New York City bank. The FBI says Grinage has lived under a dozen different aliases during the past two decades...
Last week the EPA added six major estuaries to the half a dozen already on the list of ecologically sensitive coastal areas targeted for long-term study. Estuaries, where rivers meet the sea, are the spawning grounds and nurseries for at least two-thirds of the nation's commercial fisheries, as well as what the EPA calls sources of "irreplaceable recreation and aesthetic enjoyment...
Some kinds of algae contain toxic chemicals that are deadly to marine life. When carcasses of more than a dozen whales washed up on Cape Cod last fall, their deaths were attributed to paralytic shellfish poisoning that probably passed up the food chain through tainted mackerel consumed by the whales. Carpets of algae can turn square miles of water red, brown or yellow. Some scientists speculate that the account in Exodus 7: 20 of the Nile's indefinitely turning red may refer to a red tide...
...chocolate heads and flatten rose petals, one might still ask why, when the trendiest folks seem intent on gobbling up the world's broccoli production and depleting the oceans of red fish, does mastery of chocolate remain so important? Says Hirsch: "You can read people a list of a dozen unique desserts in a restaurant and they'll say, 'What was that chocolate thing you said? I'll have that.' I don't know why, but Saturday night in America is chocolate night." Kumin and his growing legion of graduates seem intent on spreading the sweetness across the whole calendar...