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Increased administrative pressures also discourage many scholars. As costs of running law schools have soared, deans spend as much as a third of their time fund raising. Compensation is another sore point. While a professor typically earns $65,000 to $90,000 for nine months of service and the average dean receives $90,000 to $150,000 for a year's work, a star prof at a blue- ribbon school can pull in as much as $200,000 extra in consulting fees. Deans are not only frequently discouraged from moonlighting, they simply have no time...
...conversation goes on one of Project Lighthawk's flights this summer. The nine-year-old, nonprofit flying service, which operates on a budget of about $200,000 a year, has tracked radio-collared wolves in Montana and rare porpoises in the Sea of Cortes. Last winter Stewartt and Volunteer Pilot Jerry Hoogerwerf flew for several weeks over the Costa Rican rain forest and discovered and helped stop illegal gold mining and logging near a park on the Osa Peninsula...
...Appeals for the Sixth Circuit declared that a similar law in Ohio was unconstitutional. If either of the conflicting decisions is taken to the Supreme Court, it will be a further test of the Administration's strategy. In his two terms, the President has designated three of the nine high-court Justices...
...Minnesota ruling is appealed, it will be the first challenge to a parental-notification law to reach the high court with evidence about the law's actual effects on teenagers. In Minnesota the impact has been dramatic. In the nine years before the statute was enacted, the birthrate for girls 15 to 17 years old in Minneapolis increased 2%. Over the next five years, the rate leaped almost 51% -- a strong signal that teenagers are finding it harder to choose abortion...
...placate the growing revolt of right-wingers. They believed the CIA estimates of Soviet strength were understated. Bush appointed a committee of outsiders ("Team B") to use the same evidence CIA professionals had at their disposal and come up with their own estimate of Soviet strength. Four of the nine members of Team B, including its chairman Richard Pipes, would become members of the Committee on the Present Danger, a hard-line anti- detente group. Everyone knew the board was stacked -- Ray Cline, a CIA loyalist, called it a kangaroo court. But its alarmist estimates helped set the stage...