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...when the Crimson arrived at a rain-soaked course three weeks ago to face Yale and Princeton and the Elis refused to give their visitors a pre-race tour of the course. The omens were significant: "Peter's tough," said coach Bill McCurdy, "but not as tough as that oak tree." Johnson had swerved sharply to avoid the tree on a steep downhill and wrenched his back. And as if that weren't enough, the harriers were buried by both their opponents...
...some nitpicking regulations that cannot be enforced anyway. For example, the Labor Department now requires that employers attempt to make sure that exactly 6.9% of workers on Government-financed construction jobs, including carpenters, laborers and cement finishers, be women. Says William Corrigan, president of E.W. Corrigan Construction Co. in Oak Brook, Ill.: "I don't know one female cement finisher...
...homeless people camp in boarded-up tenements, small boys peddle angel dust on the streets. In the midst of this chaos, behind a cast-iron fence, three calm acres of grass and flowers surround a stately Tudor building. Students in blue and beige uniforms read in the shade of oak trees. "The oasis," as the facility is called by the community, is one of more than 100 federally funded Job Corps centers in the U.S. Inside its gates 263 young people, ages 16 to 22, mostly high school dropouts from the surrounding ghetto, study English and bookkeeping, cooking and carpentry...
Each morning at breakfast in the oak dining room of Bollay's camp, youngsters sign up for at least two sessions of such traditional camp activities as hiking, boating, swimming or horseback riding. "We've got to get them into the sunshine some of the time," concedes Director Garry White. But the chief focus of the camp is on computers. In three daily 90-minute sessions, beginners study BASIC and introductory programming; more advanced students take courses in robotics, graphics and computer-generated speech. During free time-once used to watch snakes eat frogs or to flirt with...
...good news from the bug battlefront is that most healthy trees can survive two or three onslaughts. Indeed, foresters like to point out that the moths often strengthen the woodland by eliminating sickly specimens. But such Darwinian reassurances are little comfort to suburbanites worried about a favorite elm or oak. By now, about all they can do is keep the tree as healthy as possible -faithful watering and feeding help -gather up and destroy every clutch of moth eggs in sight, and wait until next year. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Anne Moffat/Ithaca and Sara White/Boston