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...complex represents one-third of the entire commercial tax base of Watertown. According to Larry Rasky, the head of a Boston public relations firm representing the city of Watertown, a non-profit firm purchasing such a great percentage of a town’s tax base in one transaction is without precedence nationwide...
...apes were on the verge of a grisly distinction, in danger of becoming the first ape to disappear from the wild. Perhaps 5,000-6,000 survive on Sumatra, half the number that existed as recently as 1998. There are 10,000-15,000 on Borneo, a decline of one-third in the same period. "Orangutan survival totally depends on the survival of the tropical forest," says Birute Galdikas. "It's as simple as that." Galdikas has been studying orangutans since the late 1960s, when she was dispatched to Indonesia by Louis Leakey, the world-renowned anthropologist who, along with...
...early 1990s, the U.S. Senate coined the term “alternative medicine,” and the National Institutes of Health established the Office of Alternative Medicine after studies revealed that one-third of adults in the U.S. were routinely seeking CAM treatments, including acupuncture, massage, self help, and herbal remedies...
...proposed changes, they seem to be limited to the following: A one-third reduction, from 93 to 60, of the Reagan-era B-1B bomber fleet (a proposal already causing a fuss in Congress because it spares only the planes based in South Dakota, Tom Daschle's home state, and Texas, George W. Bush's). A scrapping of 50 of the U.S.' nuclear-tipped MX "Peacekeeper" missiles as a possible first step toward a unilateral reduction in the nation's nuclear arsenal. And of course a $3 billion increase in spending on missile defense, to $8.3 billion. Total 2002 cost...
...Yeah, but why cut just 33 of them? Why not kill them all? They don't play a vital role in defending the U.S. And the fact that Congress is already squawking over the one-third reduction is a bad sign. If something as obvious as this is going to have trouble getting approved, then anything more significant is pretty much impossible. If they can't do this, what will they be able...