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...Tongass is a rain forest. Protected from snow by the tree canopy and from the frigid air by the warmer ocean winds, deer browse among ancient groves of Sitka spruce, yellow cedar and hemlock. The shelter of these giants is vital for wildlife, but the trees are also the prize sought by loggers--a single 200-ft. Sitka spruce may yield 10,000 board feet of timber so fine it can be used to make pianos and guitars. Lesser trees fuel pulp mills that mean hundreds of jobs. Thus the debate over the rights to this temperate paradise has been...
...YORK: After winning the Nobel prize in economics, laureate William Vickrey said he was ready to use the Nobel for a "good bully pulpit," and had a few more books to write. Instead, the 82-year old economist died Thursday night. He was found by a passing motorist unconscious at the wheel of his car about 30 miles north of New York City by a passing motorist, and pronounced DOA at a hospital early today. His 60 year career focused on "asymmetric information," when the parties in a transaction have access to different information. Interested in practical applications, like...
Last Thursday night's performance of all six of J.S.Bach's cello suites rivalled Wagner's Ring Cycle for rights to the lengthiest-musical-experience prize, while dazzling--and exhausting--fans...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden: Three American physicists will share the 1996 Nobel Prize in their field for work on the physical properties of supercooled helium. David Lee and Robert Richardson of Cornell University and Douglas Osheroff of Stanford discovered in the early 1970s that at very low temperatures, helium-3 demonstrates characteristics of superfluidity Scot Woods
Last night's debate, which is expected to generate more than five million dollars for the region, has long been a prize coveted by local leaders...