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...state’s public universities and to enlarge them. As more and more children of the Baby Boomers reach college age, the state’s public schools will need to grow to accommodate them all; this past November, voters approved a $3.1 billion bond issue to expand higher education. Carolina alone will receive almost $500 million from the bonds and will raise its enrollment by about 20 percent...
...Ever since, Becker has tried to keep busy. He has cooked in a high hat with chef Paul Bocuse in one TV special, hung out with designer Karl Lagerfeld in another. He owns half of Völkl and is trying to expand its market share. He is doing plenty of interviews. Still, for a man so apt to see all kinds of signals of his own greatness, his world is sometimes dominated by a frivolousness that is almost painful...
...more efficiently access the fat-rich fruit seeds provided them with a huge evolutionary advantage over their less friendly cousins. That same evolutionary encouragement of cooperation among early humans, Van Schaik theorized, had been the mechanism that had separated us from beasts. To complete his study and expand our understanding of the world, he needed orangutans?wild orangutans, rather than the apes in captivity at preservation centers and zoos...
...many people aren't sure is real. "A lot of the unfortunate negative perceptions are driven by the energy issues," says Maine Senator Susan Collins, a moderate Republican. In a series of rebukes to Bush, the G.O.P.-led House has in the past few weeks rejected his plans to expand drilling in national-monument lands, the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes. And last week a Senate committee voted unanimously to spend nearly $300 million more for conservation next year than Bush wanted. "We have to take care of ourselves," says a Republican leadership aide...
...March, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue advised the Saints to consider turning the club into a regional team, a concept that several NFL teams have used successfully. A move to Mississippi could expand the team's marketing efforts to southern Alabama and Georgia and northwestern Florida in addition to Louisiana and Mississippi, where most of the Saints fans are now located...