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...groundwater at Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, the largest underground system in the world, is being contaminated by local sewage disposal. The park, which has 1.6 million annual visitors and is the most heavily used facility in the Midwest, often runs out of parking spaces...
...applied to theCollege's Early Action program exceeded formerrecords as well, with 2075 freshmen applying toHarvard by the November deadline. Harvard's earlyapplicant pool was larger than the group whoapplied to other Ivy League Early Action programsat Princeton, Yale and Brown. The number admittedearly to Harvard was the largest number as well,with 651 students gaining early acceptance to theUniversity...
Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita used last week's economic summit in Toronto to showcase Japan's growing involvement in global affairs. Takeshita unveiled a $50 billion foreign-aid package before the meeting that would make Tokyo the world's largest donor. Japan also announced a debt-relief program for Third World countries and agreed to phase out import quotas on oranges and beef...
...insisting that the next president of the World Bank be Japanese, perhaps even campaigning for a permanent seat for Tokyo on the U.N. Security Council. While the World Bank has always been headed by an American, that tradition makes little sense at a time when the Japanese are the largest investors in the bank's bonds...
Most of their companies are still relatively small, but some have grown into sizable corporations. Among the largest: Liz Claiborne (1987 revenues: $1 billion), the New York City fashion conglomerate built on Designer Claiborne's clothing for working women; Lillian Vernon (fiscal 1988 sales: $126 million), a mail-order gift company based in Mount Vernon, N.Y., and founded by Lillian Katz; and ASK Computer Systems (1987 sales: $125 million), a California software manufacturer started by Sandra Kurtzig...