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...been pestered by bears getting into his feed corn. Had to shoot two last year, he said. A fish-and- game-commission biologist said, "Rather than have farmers kill the bears, we would rather have sportsmen utilize the resource." You get used to blood- sport bureaucratese; "utilize,"or "harvest," is what you do when you get something fuzzy and four-footed in your sights. As in most states, New Hampshire's fish and game policies often seem to be caught in a time warp, perhaps in the decade of the 1820s, when subsistence hunting was an important food source...
What better month for an Indian politician to seek re-election than November? The harvest and festival seasons have just ended, leaving voters in an ebullient mood, and the weather is tolerable. No wonder, then, that Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi last week scheduled national elections for Parliament's lower house late next month, seven weeks earlier than necessary...
Some nations, notably West Germany, are considering a new bookkeeping system to take account of the environmental costs of economic production. Present measures of gross national product were developed in the 1930s, when natural resources seemed infinite. In the Philippines today, renegade coastal villagers harvest fish by dynamiting tropical reefs. Under current accounting methods, this practice shows up as contributing to the GNP, with no adjustment for the depletion of the fisheries that results from the destruction of the reefs...
Some schools at the most expensive end of higher education--those that like Ivy League members charge more than $15,000 in tuition, room board and fees a year--plan tuition raises together, often before such financial information is publicly available; the same schools jointly raise tuitions frequently to harvest the prestige tied to expense; a group of 23 elite Northeastern colleges known as the "Overlap" group meets annually to set undergraduate financial aid packages; and, finally those willing to comment say such practices are done publicly with the assumption that agreements avoid "unethical bidding wars" for top students. They...
...SUGAR by Alec Wilkinson (Knopf; $18.95). Every winter roughly 10,000 West Indian men come to harvest sugarcane by hand in South Florida. The author, a staff writer for the New Yorker, decided to see how these migrants earn their pay and came back with a story more bitter than sweet...