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...quiet man with an off-center smile, he shares his thoughts only when pressed. He is rugged but not callous. His peers consider him an artist in the way he brings down mammoth firs to fall side by side, within inches of one another. With a 20-lb. saw hoisted to his shoulder and an ax in hand, he walks on logs with the grace of a gymnast on the high beam. But standing atop the trunk that was a 200-year-old tree, he can still share in the forest's loss. "It doesn't take long," he says...
...Brian, 12, hopes one day to join them there. "If it comes down to my family or that bird," says Haire, "that bird's going to suffer. Where would we be right now if everything that lived on this earth still survived -- the saber-toothed tiger, the woolly mammoth? Things adapt or they become extinct." That applies to his industry as well, says Haire. "If we don't adapt, we'll become extinct...
...they look forward to a mammoth fundraising campaign--higher education's largest ever--Harvard officials say the loss of Spence and Bok may force them to delay or redirect their planning efforts...
Dukakis himself has offered no specific course of action, merely commenting that the ruling "adds an additional burden to our financial problems." Restoring the slashed monies would increase the Massachusetts' already-mammoth budget deficit to a level of $1.2 billion, plunging the state into ever-deeper economic woes...
...Mammoth federal interest payments may help explain the strange politics of the federal deficit. Why have so many conservatives made their peace with it? The standard conspiracy theory is that they see the deficit as a way to hold down spending. But here is an alternative conspiracy theory: interest on the debt is a $179 billion social-welfare program for owners of capital, who tend to be conservatives. Or, at least, all those interest payments make the thought of the Government's going deeply into debt more acceptable to certain people than the alternative: that the Government might...