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...important segment of the sustainable development that the world requires, various activities, particularly habitat destruction, are elevating species extinctions to something like 1,000 times the normal rate. The choice is therefore not between economic activity and environmental luxury, as some have viewed biological conservation, but rather between maximum and diminished potential for economic return. Joint ventures in tropical nations to which they bring their genetic capital, and companies in industrialized nations bring technological capital, would provide serious incentives to protect biological diversity...
Massachusetts congressional Candidates were also popular with Harvard staffers, law School Dean of Students Susan R. Walled gave the maximum donation of $2000 to Republican Steven D. Pierce. Democrat Edward J. Markey received $1750, including $250 each from Vice President John Shattuck, Jean Corlette and Kevin Casey, all of the Office for Government and Community Affairs...
Robert says he requested the maximum number of tickets even though he knew that no friends or family members would attend his graduation. He says he planned all along to scalp the tickets...
ALIEN 3 IS SET IN A MAXIMUM-SECURITY prison at the far, forgotten end of the universe. This dark landscape bespeaks an ambition to rise above sequel status. So does a glum, distancing story, in which Sigourney Weaver's Warrant Officer Ripley, depressed and, yes, alienated, feels pretty much at home in the society of outcasts where her spaceship has accidentally landed. Eventually they join her in the fight against one of the big, nasty creatures she has unknowingly brought with her. But 29-year-old director David Fincher doesn't yet know how to scare us witless...
...where the inmate population doubled in the past dozen years and voters last year approved a $1.1 billion bond issue to build 24 new state prisons, hard-line corrections officials want to see more proof that the new concept is effective. Seven months ago, Tarrant County moved 1,440 maximum- security inmates from three old, overcrowded facilities into its newly built Tarrant County Correction Center in Fort Worth, the first fully functioning direct-supervision jail system in the state; it features sunny single cells with windows, no bars. "Since then," says the center's newly appointed warden, Major James Skidmore...