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...University's] vision of itself as being self-contained is obsolete. My guess as to where [the higher education system] should go is towards more of an ecosystem," he says, suggesting that universities and the government cooperate to make decisions about research and education...
...consequences of such carnage were soon felt. An ecosystem stripped of the wolf doesn't simply become more peaceable; rather, it becomes flabby and unbalanced. With the dominant predator gone, the next biggest hunter--typically the coyote--assumes the top spot. As the coyote population explodes, the populations of foxes, badgers and martens, which compete with coyotes for rodents and other small game, dwindle. At the same time, large prey like elk, which were once brought down by wolves, begin to multiply excessively, stripping vegetation from highlands. And with no elk carcasses lying around, scavengers like magpies, ravens and grizzly...
...Yellowstone that cascade has long been felt, and since the 1930s, wildlife managers have watched in dismay as the park's ecosystem--once well balanced between predator and prey--grew more and more bottom-heavy. Finally, in the 1970s, they decided to do something about it. Working through the then new Endangered Species Act, they proposed a plan under which wolves would be imported from Canada to reclaim their place in the ecosystem. Twenty years later, the plan was approved, and wolves were trucked from across the border--31 to Yellowstone and 35 to Idaho...
...worst pain inflicted by the louse may be psychological, the disgust and embarrassment of discovering that one's head is an ecosystem for insects. "It is a very traumatic experience," says Copeland, whose daughter suffered from head lice while attending an upscale girls' school in San Francisco. "I think it goes back to some primitive reaction. We just go crazy with lice...
Intel has ceased being just a Silicon Valley wonder. It has become a weather vane for an entire digital economy, a complete ecosystem of drive manufacturers, software houses and Web programmers whose businesses depend on escalating PC growth. Because Grove and his firm control the blueprints of the PC, he is in the unique position of being able to tell customers what to do. Intel sets release dates for new chips, dictating the pace of the computer industry with the confident aplomb of fashion designers raising or lowering hemlines. It's the sort of ironfisted market grip that rarely exists...