Word: pauls
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Alarmed by the loss of species around the world, the celebrated naturalist--winner of biology's highest honors and two Pulitzer Prizes--has become an ecological Paul Revere. "The loss of biodiversity," he is fond of saying, "is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive...
...about Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board? As the man most responsible for adjusting interest rates, the magic numbers that underlie the whole world of getting and spending, he can certainly be said to influence events. Refrigerator sales and presidential approval ratings move when he moves. But Paul Krugman, a professor of economics at Stanford, argues that because Greenspan has not translated his thinking into the published theorizing that directs further thinking among other economists, he has no following, no Greenspanians. "There are people [at the Fed] who have enormous power," says Krugman. "But they probably have almost...
Through it all, public suspicion will continue to fester. "Yeltsin may win honestly," says Paul Goble, an assistant director at Radio Free Europe, "but nobody in Russia is going to believe it." Naturally, Russians have already reduced the outcome to a joke: Yeltsin is asked what will happen if he wins the election. He replies, "Russia will have a new President." And if he loses? Yeltsin answers, "Then you will have your old President." New or old, the President may have revived his campaign, but he has not restored much respect for himself or the office he holds...
...many Russians want to return to communism. Unused to freedom, they don't know how to exercise it responsibly. Russia's choices in this election offer little grounds for optimism. However, reverting to communism would be a major setback for Russia's citizens. This is a critical election. PAUL FRANCIS HEALY III Sudbury, Massachusetts
...help went ignored, he set himself on a path of destruction. And Kreutzer's family accused the military of ignoring all the obvious signs of mental distress." But the prosecution argued that Kreutzer's threats toward fellow soldiers demonstrated that his actions were carefully planned and vengeful. Captain Paul Barden told jurors in closing arguments that Kreutzer had even selected special bullets knowing they would cause more pain. There is also speculation, Towle says, that Kreutzer might have wanted to get back at soldiers who had picked on him in his three years of service, calling him names, dumping sand...