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...that dwell in desert springs would be important to more than just ecologists and taxonomists. Those tiny animals are indicator species, the canaries in the environmental coal mine that provide the first warning that the whole system is coming unhinged. "When these organisms disappear," says University of Michigan zoologist Gerald Smith, "it will signal the end of water quality and water permanence for humans in desert regions...
...five new members, Mitchell L. Adams ’66, Gerald R. Jordan ’61, Lisbet Rausing, Susan S. Wallach ’68, and Seth P. Waxman ’73, will all serve six year terms on the thirty-member board...
...Senior Associate Justice John Paul Stevens: Stevens took to the bench in 1975 after being nominated by Gerald Ford to replace William Douglas. A true independent, Stevens can be unpredictable in his opinions, but he always considers the effects of a ruling on society. Tends to defer to Congress as a decision-making body, and downplays the authority of the courts. Often sides with Justices Breyer, Ginsburg and Souter, but also writes more lone dissents than any other Justice...
...have stood on principle and quit rather than support the actions of the Administrations that hired them. Among the others: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who resigned in 1980 over the attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran, and Press Secretary Jerald terHorst, who quit in 1974 when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for any Watergate wrongdoings. More often, Washington officeholders struggle for compromise between their integrity and the demands of their employers. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, grilled by an angry press corps earlier this month about his nuanced evasions on the Libyan disinformation effort, articulated this ethical...
...Israelism was popularized among millions of Americans through books, magazines and broadcasts by the late Herbert W. Armstrong and his Worldwide Church of God, although Armstrong had no connection with the Identity movement. The Identity churches stem more directly from the preaching before and after World War II of Gerald L.K. Smith, a notorious anti-Semite. It was Smith's West Coast operative, Wesley Swift, who founded the church that Butler now leads. Later a Swift offshoot in Mariposa, Calif., led by retired Army Colonel William Potter Gale, produced the newsletter Identity and solidified the ideology...