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...Brundtland Report, a document so blunt and sobering that it abruptly forced the issue of global responsibility onto the international agenda. Since then she has shuttled around the world, addressing conferences, accepting prizes, chastising polluters, cheering reformers and establishing her potential to become one day the first woman ever to serve as U.N. Secretary-General...
...most of the unearthed Indian bones lie moldering and unexamined in museum basements; and 2) little if any data gathered from their study are shared with the descendants. According to Suzan Shown Harjo, executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, the only bit of information the Smithsonian ever imparted to her group was that their ancestors ate corn. "We could have told them that anyway," says Harjo, citing the accuracy of Indian oral tradition...
None of these expedients is desirable. Yet higher education, like the health-care industry, must either contain costs now or risk becoming the monopoly of the wealthy, a condition that would be socially undesirable. The alternative is ever increasing prices, with the cost spread among parents, students, federal and state government, and private donors. Quality, as educators never tire of saying, costs money -- and there is no easy solution. Laments Frederick Bohen, senior vice president at Brown University: "We're talking about a bunch of lousy choices...
Though Ingersoll concedes there is some financial risk, he argues that "launching the Sun is likely to turn out on an investment basis to be the best deal we've ever made. For the same amount of money, I could buy something boring that I've done umpteen times over that has the potential to earn, pretax, perhaps $2 million. The Sun has the potential to earn 15 times that. So from a risk-reward viewpoint -- which isn't why I did it -- it makes sense. From a creative viewpoint, it has a lot to do with how our newspapers...
Antipathy toward Exxon threatens to obscure the fact that it mounted the largest response ever to an oil spill. The effort was like organizing an infantry division from scratch and deploying it in battle within 60 days. At the cleanup's peak, Exxon marshaled more than 1,400 boats, 85 aircraft and 11,300 people. With that mobilization came such daily logistic headaches as providing 200 tons of food and disposing of 1,400 gal. of human waste in a remote and unforgiving environment. "I think Exxon did a hell of a job," says David Usher, whose firm Marine Pollution...