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Each passing day, I became more convinced that Harvaard viewed me as expendable and had dealt me my fate, sending me from Grays East to Pfoho like the first-place New York Yankees exiled Ruben Sierra to the abysmal Detroit Tigers. Many questions crossed my mind: Should I investigate off-campus housing? Should I work out to get in better shape for the daily trek...
...Harvard Glacier got its name in 1899 when the Harriman family--which later included W. Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state under President Lyndon B. Johnson--took a vacation in southern Alaska. They were accompanied by Harvard minerology instructor Charles Palache; John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club; an Amherst College professor; and two U.S. Geological Survey employees...
...Harvard Glacier got its name in 1899 when the Harriman family--which later included W. Averell Harriman, undersecretary of state under President Lyndon B. Johnson--took a vacation in southern Alaska. They were accompanied by Harvard minerology instructor Charles Palache; John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club; an Amherst College professor; and two U.S. Geological Survey employees...
...things the federal government has always seen (and budgeted) as its business, and everytime they use the term, you can hear the federal budget shrinking. Arriving in Chicago from the fireline near Fresno, California, where he spent a week helping fight the flames in the Sierra foothills, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt reflected on how a second Clinton Administration will approach the art of thinking small. On healthcare, the Administration takes credit for triggering the "reform" that was carried out by large profit-making managed care firms that bought up doctors and hospitals across the country and cut prices. On environmental...
...mutual interest to a middle-aged urban female and a 600-lb. free-ranging ursid. The Endangered Species Act, perhaps, and how the Fish and Wildlife Service arbitrarily erased about 4,000 species from the protected list last February? "Uh, I know I forgot to send in my Sierra Club dues, but, believe me, fella, the minute I get back to my checkbook...