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...studied the trends in SAT tests over the past 10 years and put together a manual. "How to Beat the SAT," on his computer, and used the manual as the primary teaching tool for his course...
Wise said DeWolfe was an unusual situation because each telephone line installed in the new dorms requires manual hookup instead of simply being switched on from the telephone office. Wise said he expects DeWolfe will have full service within days...
...making fun of Dorm Crew because I did not like the work. Personality, I could clean toilets all day--with the right music, the right pair of industrial strength gloves and just the right mix of volatile chemicals. Can I help it if Dorm Crew is manual labor in the spirit of the Core...
Still, the outcome could have been worse. EPA chief William Reilly, who was in charge of rewriting the manual, tried to ease the existing guidelines as little as possible. But he had to win the approval of probusiness presidential advisers. The resulting compromise may not please environmentalists, but it may derail a bill moving through Congress that would have been even more damaging to wetlands...
...manual will not become official until after a 60-day period of public comment and a subsequent EPA review, and environmental groups are gearing up to comment loudly. So are those who want to profit from the wetlands. Says Mark Maslyn of the American Farm Bureau Federation: "The new rules bring some common sense back to wetlands policy." But common sense may not be the best guide in a debate that hinges on scientific questions. As with so many other resources, America's marginal wetlands may not be fully appreciated until they are gone...