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...People are going to have to live without beluga caviar for a while if we are going to have any hope of rescuing the species," says Lisa Speer, senior policy analyst for the Natural Resources Defense Council and a spokeswoman for a sturgeon-hugging coalition that calls itself Caviar Emptor...
...showing that students living in nonsmoking dorms are less likely to pick up the addiction, college officials turned to antitobacco advocates for help in drafting new policies. The number of state universities with smoke-free dorms has doubled, to 26, over the past two years. Says Cassandra Foust, a spokeswoman for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.: "We respect the rights of colleges and universities to establish no-smoking policies on campus...
...country for questioning. It can also order the "freezing" of suspect facilities, which would prohibit any movement to or from a site during an inspection. "There were times when we came to a building and the Iraqis were running out the back door," says Melissa Fleming, an iaea spokeswoman. "That should not happen now." The best news for the inspectors may be that this time the U.S. is prepared to punish Saddam if it does. --Reported by Tony Karon, Azadeh Moaveni and Stewart Stogel/at...
...topped the bargain list, followed by Indianapolis, Ind., at $147,000. Most expensive were Honolulu at $265,000 and Los Angeles at $217,000. GetThere says automated meeting planning can save time and money, but the firm doesn't vouch for amenities in the cities. Says GetThere spokeswoman Noel Bilodeau: "I know nothing about Jacksonville...
...behalf of four South African families. Thandi Shezi, a Khulumani project officer, says compensation should run into billions of dollars. The companies call the suits "baseless" and will fight to dismiss them. "You can't hold international investors responsible for the actions of governments," says Monika Dunant, a spokeswoman for Zurich-based bank UBS Group, named in both suits. But South African activists point to successful cases against Swiss banks that held onto money deposited by Holocaust victims, and companies in Nazi Germany that benefitted from forced labor. "If they want to play the international game," says Neville Gabriel...