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Seafood will not be limitless either. Some scientists estimate that rising demand will exceed what the oceans can produce by 20% in as little as 20 years. One sign of how badly the seas have been overfished is that populations of bluefin tuna have declined 94% since...
Ford did its share to reduce smog in the Golden State as it unveiled two models that will exceed the first stage of the state's stringent new clean-air code. By improving the catalytic converters in their subcompacts, Ford beat the clock on the tougher standards by four years. Research also continues on vehicles fueled by natural gas and flexible mixtures of up to 85% methanol and gasoline. As a result, car buyers are soon going to face choices much more complicated than merely deciding whether to buy their favorite sedan in green...
Roughly two-thirds of the litigation stems from the epic savings and loan scandal. Accounting firms, along with lawyers and others, face thousands of lawsuits by investors and government regulators, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Accountants' financial liability in S&L cases could exceed $9 billion, not counting compensatory damages. Last week Ernst & Young agreed to pay $63 million to settle claims that its negligence helped S&L honcho Charles Keating Jr. defraud some 23,000 investors in Lincoln Savings & Loan. The settlement came two weeks after the largest U.S. accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, paid $22 million for fraud...
...There are cities in the U.S. -- including a couple in Connecticut -- that have infant-mortality rates that exceed those of Third World countries. Our state has as good a record of compassion as any as to how it regards the frail elements of society. And yet the Connecticut department of children and youth services -- that's our children -- is under a court order to improve the quality of care for foster children. The department of correction is also under court order on prison overcrowding. . . I can go down the list. We used to exceed what the Federal Government...
Book bills that regularly exceed $300 have become as beloved a Harvard tradition as the Quantitive Reasoning Requirement. But some Harvard administrators and publishing experts are already hinting that next fall's book bills will lighten even the heaviest wallets...