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...midst of steady rain and winds, Harvard (3-0 overall, 2-0 Ivy) celebrated its home opener Saturday by thrashing Princeton, 13-2, at Ohiri Field...
...road to Rio de Janeiro will soon be jammed with thousands of delegates attending the U.N.'s June Earth Summit. As green-minded summiteers ponder such now-or-never topics as global warming, the rain-forest crunch and the world's vanishing flora and fauna, the most endangered species of all may be Rio's street children. A Brazilian child-advocacy group reports that 470 juveniles were murdered in the Rio area last year, many of them by death squads made up of off-duty police hired by local shopkeepers. If the authorities can help it, Rio's most endangered...
When it doesn't rain, Harvard scores...
Environmentalists argued that market forces have led to the elimination of the rain forests and increased steel and farm production. The free market has contributed to the loss of hundreds of animal and plant species, as well as to the rapid increase in the output of CO2 and PCP's into the environment, they said...
Minority-rights advocates fear that the absence of blacks on the jury and the decision to move the trial to predominantly white Ventura County might increase the cops' chances of acquittal. Last week more than two dozen civil rights and community groups held a rain-dampened candlelight vigil at the site of King's beating. "More is at stake than the trial of four police officers," said Joe Hicks, one of the organizers. "Justice is what's at stake...