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With the exception of New York City's community school board elections, Cambridge is the only municipal government in the U.S. to use proportional representation--typically known as PR, according to the New York-based Institute of Public Administration...
...seemed a small thing, hardly ground for arrest. For two weeks a tiny group of Bulgarian environmentalists called Ecoglasnost manned a table in a Sofia park to gather signatures on a petition calling for public debate on two controversial river-diversion schemes. They had collected nearly 7,000 names, when police and militia units suddenly swooped down, scattered bystanders and arrested seven of the organizers...
...none is more venerable than radar. The seemingly magical technology that enables planes, ships and artillery units to spot the enemy from afar has made the difference between defeat and victory in many a battle. In a Nova TV episode called Echoes of War, which was shown on the Public Broadcasting System last week, radar was hailed as the military's unsung hero of World War II. As physicist I.I. Rabi once recalled, "Maybe we could have won it without the atomic bomb . . . but without radar we could have lost...
...with a local folk-rock rhythm-and-blues band called the Roosters. Oliver spends many nights playing with Austin's Otter Space Band and many days presenting environment programs in Texas secondary and elementary schools. "We want to pass on our ideas to youngsters," he says. He also composes public-service jingles for cities and towns. One water-conservation message was titled "Please Don't Leave the Water Running When You Wash...
...will bring federal wolf bureaucrats, whose regulations will drive honest ranchers nuts. Carl Haywood, legislative assistant to Idaho Republican Senator James McClure, says voters fear that the wolf will be used as a surrogate by environmental extremists, whose real agenda is "getting ranchers, miners, loggers and motorized recreationists off public lands...