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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fortunately, FAS is not coming out of the deal completely empty-handed. The faculty exacted a commitment from President Derek C. Bok to be represented in future decisions affecting property development, and the Gulf site will ultimately end up in FAS's hands. Nevertheless, if we accept that Harvard's primary purpose is its academic mission, a compromise as unpalatable to the Faculty as this is still unacceptable...
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...Indians, said Walter Echo-Hawk, senior counsel for the Native American Rights Fund, the agreement marks the "beginning of the end of their spiritual nightmare." In fact, some scholarly institutions have gone further: Stanford University has consented to return an entire collection of skeletal remains of 550 Indians, most of them from the Ohlone tribe, to their descendants. Nonetheless, many curators and anthropologists are worried that a sweeping national policy would empty museums across the land. Scholars argue that preserved skeletons and other human artifacts, particularly those of great antiquity, provide essential information on problems ranging from the organization...
After an embarrassing false start, during which workers futilely hand scrubbed individual rocks, Exxon refined some techniques that show promise for future oil-spill cleanups. The omni-sweep, a spray nozzle at the end of a 100- ft.-long mechanical arm, allowed workers to hose steep shorelines that were otherwise inaccessible. High-temperature, high-pressure rinses proved moderately effective in scouring oil-fouled rocky beaches, but they killed intertidal creatures such as barnacles and snails. Coast Guard Captain David Zawadzki compares the process with chemotherapy...
...mackerel, stop the presses! A lot of coal miners will certainly be relieved to learn this, not to mention scads of military test pilots. And just how perilous is this work, which is principally performed by laborers brought in from the Caribbean? An answer is tucked in at the end of a paragraph 245 pages later: "As far as I know a West Indian has never died in the cane fields...