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...past, Lake Superior, which represents one-tenth of the world's supply of freshwater, was considered "inviolable," but with environmental groups in retreat and a Republican Congress favoring "wise use" of natural resources, the Excelsior project is moving full tilt toward opening...
...always interested in new market opportunities. But they have a more compelling need to understand the ocean floor: the southern part of the island nation has the bad luck to sit on the meeting place of three tectonic plates. As these plates grind against each other, they generate about one-tenth of the world's annual allotment of earthquakes, including plenty of lethal quakes like the one that killed 5,500 people in Kobe in January and the famous 1923 Tokyo temblor in which more than 142,000 perished...
...budget, like other federal programs of its kind, is in for some heavy cuts -- perhaps 35% -- and it may also be barred from filing class action. But the LSC insists that those account for less than one-tenth of 1% of its caseload -- 1,600 out of 1.7 million cases in 1994. "People don't understand what we do," says Freiberg. "If they answered the phone and heard our clients and the kinds of stories we hear, people wouldn't be so anti-Legal Services...
...also worries that if enough students grab their $20 back, the council will be bankrupt. A council bankruptcy created by the active participation of students strikes us as the smooth functioning of democracy. Even if only one in 10 students sent their fee in happily, the council would still have about $13,000 to play with. If you're only catering to one-tenth of the campus, we think that's plenty. If you happen to disappear, it's only because the whole student body wants...
...than the name itself, there is nothing new about this suddenly ubiquitous disorder. The world has always had its share of obstreperous kids, and it has generally treated them as behavior problems rather than patients. Most of the world still does so: European nations like France and England report one-tenth the U.S. rate of ADHD. In Japan the disorder has barely been studied...