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...often said that somewhere in Cambridge is the Center of the Universe, but no one is quite sure where, because every Harvard under grad thinks it's underneath the ground he or she is standing on. Sadly, this is true...
Similarly, the unions have often called large one- or two-day "stayaways" but have not managed to organize the kind of prolonged general strike that could bring the economy to a halt. Many South African businessmen say privately that the most effective economic sanction of all would be for the millions of black workers simply to stay at home until the government agrees to negotiate. This does not happen, says a diplomat in Pretoria, because "the primary concern of most blacks in South Africa is money. The secondary concern is possible political gain in the future. There is no revolution...
Shrimpers do their harvesting by dragging nets up to 55 ft. wide along the ocean floor, a technique that catches much more than tiny, tasty crustaceans. Kemp's ridley sea turtles, weighing up to 100 lbs., are netted and killed so , often that the species is endangered. Two years ago, the Commerce Department asked shrimpers to rig their nets with trapdoor-like gadgets called turtle- excluder devices (TEDs), which permit trapped turtles to escape. Gulf Coast shrimpers balked, and last spring, when the devices were made mandatory under the Endangered Species Act, the shrimpers protested by blockading shipping channels along...
When the final product was released in June, the reviews were positive, if cautions, Most support staff said Rondeau and Dunlop had moved beyond the often bitter climate of labor relations over the past few years to produce a contract that would yield better benefits and salary for the University's clerical and technical workers...
Will the new dean be an iconoclast, prepared to be a vocal advocate for affirmative action in a faculty often resistant to change? Or will the administrator be a faculty insider, knowledgeable enough to nudge colleagues in the direction of gradual change? No one knows, and Spence is remaining tight-lipped...