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...which wanted a professional journalist, and the university administration, which sought someone with a more academic background. As many as three candidates were reportedly offered the job but declined after taking stock of the school's troubles. Rising costs for students (now $20,000 a year), a deteriorating physical plant and a fractious faculty have led many educators to conclude that Columbia, the most prestigious journalism school in the country, is resting on its laurels. "It needs a shot in the arm right now," says Professor Karen Rothmyer...
...drive, a zippy but economical four-cylinder engine and the sleek, aerodynamic look of a European or Japanese import. That should not be surprising, because Ford designed and developed the Probe in a joint project with Mazda, the Japanese company in which Ford owns a 25% interest. Mazda's plant in Flat Rock, Mich., will be turning out 600 Probes a day by September. All the cars that can be produced through next October have already been sold to dealers. The product seems to be attracting young buyers who have previously leaned toward such imports as the Honda Prelude...
Perhaps the nature of the new activism becomesclearest in smaller groups. Disabledundergraduates in Advocates for a Better LearningEnvironment (ABLE) consider themselves "radicallyactivist" because they seek general changes in thephysical plant of the University and in thecommunity's attitudes. But the handful of severelymobility-impared students at Harvard say they usethe organization only as a means to meet withadministrators...
...agreement capped two decades of controversy over Shoreham. The plant was not licensed by the U.S. Government to go into service, mainly because the surrounding communities would not accept LILCO's emergency-evacuation plan. Though the utility clung to the hope that it might get a license, Governor Mario Cuomo became determined that the plant would not start up. To ensure Shoreham's demise, the state decided to buy the facility, but talks with LILCO dragged on for six months, to the point where New York prepared a $7.8 billion takeover bid for the entire utility. Cuomo set a deadline...
...possibly a decade. Thus LILCO customers will be forced to pay part of the $2.5 billion that the utility still owes for the construction of Shoreham. For the beleaguered U.S. nuclear power industry, though, there was no consolation. After a decade in which not a single new atomic power plant was ordered and 78 that were planned or under construction were canceled, the industry got its biggest and costliest tombstone...