Word: enterings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They say a little learning is a dangerous thing. Ask Todd Patterson. He had just finished the sixth grade in Franklin Lakes, N.J., when he began compiling his own encyclopedia of all the nations of the world. He wrote to embassies -- including the Soviet Union's -- for information. Enter the FBI, which began investigating the boy and kept at it until it had built up a 17-page file. Now an 18-year-old high school senior, Patterson brought suit in May against the FBI to get access to the files. Last week a federal judge threw out the suit...
...much for theory. In reality, the quota system has been ineffective in controlling the trade. Up to 90% of the tusks that enter the marketplace have been taken illegally by poachers, and smugglers have little trouble getting the ivory out of Africa. Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi has reportedly financed his insurrection with ivory taken from more than 100,000 elephants. Some countries seem to be conduits for the illegal trade. With roughly 4,500 elephants of its own, Somalia has still managed to export tusks from an estimated 13,800 elephants in the past three years, evidence that...
When you return to Harvard from the Bahamas, you will be tan. You will be rested. You will be wearing strange-looking beads. You will automatically turn on reggae music whenever you enter your room. You will miss your classes. Friends who were not in the Bahamas with you will ask you what's your problem. You'll answer, "No Problem...
...list distributed yesterday to students, Slive announced the results of a lottery allowing 50 sophomores to enter Literature and Arts B-25, "Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," after the professor told students shopping his course last week that he would have to limit the course because of overcrowding...
None of this is likely to erode the White House's strong support for Tower. The diminutive Texan's 1962 success in becoming the first Republican Senator from the Lone Star State since Reconstruction helped inspire oilman George Bush to enter Texas G.O.P. politics. Last year Tower was one of the first prominent Republicans to endorse Bush, and he stumped hard for Bush throughout the campaign. Tower has coveted the post of Secretary of Defense for at least eight years; he asked Ronald Reagan for it in early 1981 and renewed his request immediately after Bush won last year...