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Halfback Christine Biggs had an excellent opportunity to put the Crimson in the lead early in the second session. Harvard stopper Tara Weinstock fed Johnston a lead pass towards the left corner. But Biggs' driving header of Johnston's looping cross was nabbed by Cordano...
Most Chinese nursery schools display a mural of young, cherubic children riding a dragon. The dragon represents China; the well-fed kids symbolize a prosperous future. But outside a primary school in Kai Kong, a factory town in Guangdong province, the traditional mural is decidedly modern. There isn't anything special about the dragon, but the fat children are carrying cameras, videocassette recorders and boom boxes...
...nitrates from farm runoff have transformed more than 20,000 acres of Everglades saw grass into cattails. These intruders, which thrive in high-nutrient water, suck the oxygen from the marsh and suffocate aquatic life at the bottom of the Everglades food chain. On shallow ponds and canals, nutrient-fed algae grow so thick that they block the sun from underwater plants. So far, most of the damage is confined to Loxahatchee National Wildlife Preserve -- an Everglades habitat abutting the farms -- and state conservation areas just north of the national park. "It's like a cancer," says park superintendent Finley...
...including Venezuela to the north, Peru to the west and Bolivia to the south. An adventurous monkey could climb into the jungle canopy in the foothills of the Andes and swing through 2,000 miles of continuous 200-ft.-high forest before reaching the Atlantic coast. The river itself, fed by more than 1,000 tributaries, meanders for 4,000 miles, a length second only to the Nile's 4,100 miles. No other river compares in volume: every hour the Amazon delivers an average of 170 billion gal. of water to the Atlantic -- 60 times the flow...
...Budget Director's comments, Bush told a news conference on Tuesday that "I can feel very comfortable with his sallying forth and saying that." While Darman's critique was not directed at Greenspan personally, former Federal Reserve Governor Lyle Gramley thinks the ploy may backfire. Said he: "The Fed cannot be seen as knuckling under to pressure from the Administration...