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...Those of us involved in the effort to get out Saundra Graham as a state rep. had no illusions. We felt he would be a representative and he has been," says Lester P. Lee Jr., who ran Thompson's 1988 campaign...
...about foods and imply some therapeutic benefit from specific brands. The USDA has banned use of the seal on meat products, including frozen dinners and entrees. "The program would have set up the idea of good foods and bad foods, and there is no scientific support for that," says Lester Crawford of the USDA. "There are good diets and bad diets...
When tenor saxophonist Lester Young became one of Billie's close friends, he enlongated her moniker to "Lady Day", and she in turn stuck him with the nickname "Pres", after President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Musically, Young and Holiday were kindred spirits, for they both were small on tone but overwhelmed with their expression and musical interpretations. *confusing...
...abroad. Peter Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden, points out that humanity consumes or wastes 40% of the total amount of energy stored by photosynthesis in terrestrial vegetation. No one knows how much more people can devour before they begin to exhaust resources and crowd out vital ecosystems. Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute argues that global annual food production already falls short of human consumption and that environmental degradation reduces yields 1% annually at a time when world population is growing...
...Alexandria participants were: Lester Brown, Worldwatch Institute; John Chafee, U.S. Senate, Rhode Island; Michael Deland, Council on Environmental Quality; Kathryn Fuller, World Wildlife Fund; Albert Gore, U.S. Senate, Tennessee; Denis Hayes, Earth Day 1990; Thomas Lovejoy, Smithsonian Institution; Michael McElroy, Harvard University; Kenneth Piddington, World Bank Environment Department; Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Garden; F. Sherwood Rowland, University of California at Irvine; James Gustave Speth, World Resources Institute; Mostafa Tolba, United Nations Environment Program; and Alexei Yablokov, Congress of People's Deputies, U.S.S.R...