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Foreign organisms have invaded the Great Lakes before, but few have engendered such apprehension. "The zebra mussel is a keystone species," says zoologist David Garton of Ohio State University. "It has the power to restructure the entire ecological community." The zebra mussel can strip water of algae and other microscopic plants and thus endanger animal life. Native clams are beginning to die off, victims of the zebra mussels' habit of attaching to clamshells in such numbers that they cannot open...
About 100 people at Ohio State University showed their support for the attack, shouting "Mess with the best; die like the rest" and "Liberate Kuwait...
...make a way out of nowhere. He can make hope where there is no hope," the Rev. Michael R. Bean said yesterday from the pulpit of St. Paul AME Church in downtown Columbus, Ohio...
Antitrust accusations have dogged the firms for months. In a congressional hearing last May, Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio denounced the price increases and their "devastating" impact on government programs that buy infant formula for low-income families. Metzenbaum's hearing spurred a still active investigation by the Federal Trade Commission. The companies deny that any conspiracy took place...
...coverage of mammograms, and generally for more research into the still mysterious roots of breast cancer. They point out that the U.S. government spends only $77 million a year investigating ways to prevent the illness, against $648 billion on heart- disease prevention. Last week Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar of Ohio sought to redress the shortfall by introducing a bill that would add $25 million to the NIH budget expressly for basic research on breast cancer. Meanwhile the National Women's Health Network, a lobbying group in Washington, continues to press for federal funding of studies on the effects of diet...