Word: illing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Around the globe, on land and in the sea, the story is much the same. Spurred by poverty, population growth, ill-advised policies and simple greed, humanity is at war with the plants and animals that share its planet. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, predicts that during the next three decades man will drive an average of 100 species to extinction every day. Extinction is part of evolution, but the present rate is at least 1,000 times the pace that has prevailed since prehistory...
Although in most cases the Soviets seemed remarkably adept at cutting red tape to get foreign disaster teams into Armenia, unexplained tie-ups cost time and possibly lives. Baxter International Inc. of Deerfield, Ill., assembled a flying medical lab, including 20 special dialysis machines to treat victims of crush syndrome whose kidneys had been affected, but four days passed before visas arrived. A Japanese offer to send an earthquake rescue team was rejected without explanation, as was a Turkish proposal to send helicopters and cranes. An American plastic and reconstructive surgeon, Claude Frechette, who arrived shortly after the earthquake, says...
...some have joined large firms: Edu-Care International, with offices in New York City, Miami and London, employs more than 60 people and advises 150 students a year. Private coaches generally prefer meeting clients when they are juniors or seniors in high school. But Jane McLagen of Hinsdale, Ill., likes to sign up eighth- graders because it gives her more time to shape their record. In past summers she has sent one student to Greece to build roads, another to Hawaii to teach language to dolphins. "It makes them more interesting to the college," she says. "They can show...
...guard full of fresh faces, who won't make you ill...
...Michigan State 17-1-0 2. HARVARD 11-0-0 3. Minnesota 14-4-0 4. St. Lawrence Univ. 11-0-0 5. Northern Michigan 12-6-1 6. Maine 13-3-0 7. Boston 10-3-0 8. Lake Superior State 10-5-3 9. Univ. of Ill-Chicago 11-6-2 10. Denver 11-8-1 11. Cornell 6-2-0 12. Michigan Teach 10-9-0 13. RPI 7-3-2 14. Wisconsin 8-7-4 15. Michigan...