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...animal science at Oregon State University, pointing to the number of field animals inadvertently killed during crop production and harvest. One study showed that simply mowing an alfalfa field caused a 50% reduction in the gray-tailed vole population. Mortality rates increase with each pass of the tractor to plow, plant and harvest. Rabbits, mice and pheasants, he says, are the indiscriminate "collateral damage" of row crops and the grain industry...
Kubis had seemed perfectly healthy when he awoke Sunday morning for the Temple Cup final. He had helped the Crimson freshman eight plow through a 32-boat field with victories in each of the previous four days, leaving just his boat and Oxford Brookes in the final...
...fortune of more than $275 million, she transcends performers' usual financial insecurities, and yet with her iconic status comes the intense glare of public attention. Madonna, immensely successful as a singer, has never won respect as an actress - her 1988 Broadway stage appearance in David Mamet's Speed the Plow caused New York magazine's John Simon to grumble that "she could afford to pay for a few acting lessons." Her most successful movies are those in which she played supporting roles that traded on her headstrong image, like 1985's Desperately Seeking Susan or 1992's A League...
...Francisco, Calif., is increasing its head count each year by 297, or about 6% annually, hiring everyone from Ph.D.s to community-college grads who can work in manufacturing. Just in the budding field of bioinformatics, in which specialists can make more than $100,000 a year using computers to plow through reams of genetic data, there will be an estimated 20,000 unfilled jobs by 2005. Chemists are also being wooed across industries...
...this year," says Robert Osborne, a Hollywood Reporter columnist (and author of 70 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards), who has been fed anonymous notes and e-mail tips assailing various Oscar contenders. Gone are the days when the studios' plan was simply to plow money into trade ads touting their films and stars--to out-green the competition. Now the idea is to out-mean them...