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When I applied, the prestige was overwhelming, or at least I thought so. After all, Time featured the school on its cover that fall for the 350th anniversary. Other magazines wrote mysteriously about the "Harvard Factor." Famous people like David Brinkley's son taught there. Half of Reagan's cabinet were Harvard graduates. The Red Sox had all the makings of a future Series winner. The prospects couldn't have looked brighter for any college, and I began shopping early for my doubleweave Harvard sweatshirt...
...Without a couple of starters, [the tournament] gave a good opportunity for the younger players to get experience against some good teams that they normally wouldn't have gotten," Dooley said. "We're a young team with eight or nine freshmen, which is almost half of the team. I learned a tremendous amount about what they could and could...
...beginning of his reign. Early on, he toured the country and took care to detour from the carefully prepared showcase routes to inspect firsthand the polluted rivers and devastated forests. Funds for environmental protection, about $24 billion this year, are projected to reach $46.4 billion annually in the first half of the 1990s. At the same time, Gorbachev's regime has cracked down on polluters. Around Lake Baikal, about two dozen violations of ecological standards have been referred to prosecutors. In Nizhni Tagil the government has closed ten factories for failing to control toxic emissions and has begun criminal investigations...
...refuse they produce. Manufacturers too need more prodding. Higher fines, taxes and stricter enforcement might force offending industries to curb waste. Industry must also re-examine its production processes. Such an approach already has a successful track record. The Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. has cut waste generation in half by using fewer toxic chemicals, separating out wastes that can be reused and substituting alternative raw materials for hazardous substances. 3M's savings last year: an astonishing $420 million. In the Netherlands, Duphar, a large chemical concern, adopted a new manufacturing process that decreased by 95% the amount of waste...
...country remains the world's biggest user of natural resources and a major despoiler of the global environment. Because of the size of its economy, the U.S. consumes one-fourth of the world's energy each year. Yet, for a given amount of energy, the U.S. produces less than half as much economic output as Japan and West Germany. Meanwhile, the commitment to reduce pollution has flagged. Although the U.S. accounts for less than 5% of the global population, it generates 15% of the world's sulfur dioxide emissions and 25% of nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide. Each American produces...