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...feat was worthy of the genie in Aladdin. In the twinkling of an eye, Disney chairman Michael Eisner and president Frank Wells last week turned 7 million stock options into a $263 million profit, one of the richest corporate paydays ever. Eisner alone raked in $202 million. The executives cashed in their options, which were set to expire in 1994, to avoid the tax increases that Bill Clinton has pledged to ask Congress for next year. While both men were staunch Clinton supporters, his proposed tax on wealthy individuals could have cost them an extra $20 million if they...
Caves can be pounded into existence by ocean waves, plowed open by ice or formed by lava. But to speleologists, the most interesting are those that have been etched out of limestone by acidic water flowing underground. For a long time, researchers believed that nature could accomplish this feat in only one way: through the action of carbonic acid, which is produced when water reacts with carbon dioxide. The weak acid slowly dissolves bedrock. An underground stream forms, and an elaborate network of chambers like those found at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky takes shape. The unusual limestone terrains where this...
...only four species," says Tom Poulson, professor of biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. "But that allows us to look in greater detail at what is going on, say, between predator / and prey." As a result, biologists can study subterranean ecosystems in their entirety -- a feat that often proves impossibly complex aboveground...
...Notes: Dartmouth has now had the league's MVP for the last three years (!), a feat unmatched since Pennsylvania's golden years of '84-85-86... Penn linebacker Pat Goodwillie was named Sophomore of the Year for leading the Quaker's stifling defense, ranked sixth in the nation in total defense and fifth in scoring defense. Giardi shredded it pretty well, though...Princeton and Cornell led the league with the most All-Ivy mentions (12). Princeton and Dartmouth had six players on the first team...Harvard tied Brown with seven mentions...
...most of the season, the defense was more of a speed bump: it allowed 36, 31, 31, 31, 30 and 21 points in Harvard's six losses before the Crimson's 29-19 victory over Brown. (Holding Brown to 19 points is no great feat in itself, but it's good for the stat sheet...