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This week, in 70 cities from Anchorage, Alaska, to Athens, Ga., environmentalists plan to stage a "Day of Action" by picketing Home Depot, the mammoth building-supply chain (sales last year: $24 billion). Customers will be offered "rain forest tours" through the store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia...
...Higher Education Act, a mammoth piece of legislation that spends much of its 700 pages on increases in student aid, cleared the Senate yesterday afternoon after getting House approval Monday. President Clinton is expected to sign the bill into...
Even a Little One like Bonnie, of course, can do plenty of harm. Some half a million people were forced to flee inland last week, as the 400-mile-wide storm--mammoth in size even by hurricane standards--swirled toward Cape Fear, N.C. And though Bonnie's 115-m.p.h. winds slowed rapidly as she lumbered inland, her forward progress slowed too, with the result that the storm hovered over the state and pummeled it for more than a day. Downed power lines robbed over 240,000 people of electricity. Even worse than the winds were the rains--more than...
...mammoth BP-Amoco merger is a sign that there's still money to be made in the depressed global oil market -- but only on the back of heavy sacrifice. BP's $48 billion acquisition of Amoco will see about 6,000 jobs slashed in Cleveland and Houston. "With oil prices weak, the only way for companies to remain profitable is to cut their costs," says Fortune correspondent Nelson Schwartz. "Exxon and other companies have actually boosted their profits despite the depressed market by improving their efficiency." The merger will allow BP and Amoco to remain competitive by pursuing an economy...
Simply stated, Venter claims that he--virtually single-handedly--can achieve the goals of the mammoth, federally financed Human Genome Project in less time and at far less cost. That would take some doing. When scientists launched the project in 1990, they estimated it was going to take 15 years and cost $3 billion to map the 60,000 to 80,000 human genes and sequence the 3 billion or so chemical code letters in the genome--the tangle of DNA crammed into the nucleus of each human cell...