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Yale officials requested the dismissal on the grounds that the GESO's withholding of grades was only a partial strike, which is not protected under labor law. When teaching fellows refused to release students' grades in the winter of '95-'96, they continued teaching, grading papers and exams and writing recommendations--just not submitting grades...
Meanwhile, a group of biologists in central Texas may have come up with at least a partial solution to the Lyme problem. "We call it the four-poster," says John George, a tick specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kerrville. It's a bin full of corn surrounded by specially angled rollers. As deer push in to eat the corn, the rollers coat the animal's head and neck with a pesticide that targets mites and ticks. Pilot studies on 50-acre plots have produced a 95% drop in the local tick population. "What's neat about this...
...Democrats had found a way to steal the show. For weeks the man at the center of the scandal, former D.N.C. fund raiser John Huang, had refused to testify; so when Glenn disclosed in his opening statement that Huang might be willing to talk if he were granted some partial immunity, Republicans growled that it was "nothing more than an opening-day stunt." White House aides, who had been nervous that the retiring former astronaut might try to depart the Senate with a statesmanlike flourish, were delighted at his combativeness...
Jewel left the 49th state for the 50th, but she found Hawaii unappealing and very quickly made her way to her mother. She won a partial scholarship to an art school in Michigan, and after graduating, she sang on street corners to raise train fare to rejoin her mother, who had moved to San Diego. There Jewel worked in a string of dead-end jobs. When mother and daughter ran out of money, they moved from Carroll's tiny apartment and lived in Jewel's Volkswagen van. Her mother bought her own van, and the two often parked side...
...moneyman? Did he funnel money from Overseas Chinese-led companies by running it through a U.S. network of donors? Did he pass classified information about economic developments in Asia to his former employer, a burgeoning conglomerate with assets all over the continent? So far, Thompson's team has only partial answers, but it knows where the story begins...