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Americans are not exactly innocents at the game of exploitation for the greater glory of baseball. In Sugarball (Yale University; $19.95), sociologist Alan M. Klein examines the underside of baseball in the Dominican Republic, the poverty-stricken nation famous for two cash crops: sugarcane and big- & league shortstops. Klein depicts the Dominican "academies," where teenage prospects are recruited, trained and evaluated by major-league clubs, as "the baseball counterpart of the colonial outpost, the physical embodiment overseas of the parent franchise." Even though Klein's ire is sometimes ill-concealed and the book actually contains a section called "Baseball...
...pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. A sickening videotape shows the leopard being released from a cage and running under a nearby pickup truck. A pack of dogs flushed it out of hiding, and for $3,000, a "hunter" | from Louisiana had the privilege of shooting the panic-stricken animal...
Back on campus, Shehabuddin helped organize the relief effort that sent donations from Harvard students to her flood-stricken nation...
Such a disturbance of the monsoon would cause a major disaster. For instance, rains over the Ethiopian highlands supply 80% of the water that feeds the Nile. If those rains fell offshore, the tens of millions of people in that already drought-stricken region would suffer even more grievously. Parts of Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and India could be similarly affected...
Over the past two years, the American has tried to exonerate himself by reanalyzing the virus samples sent from France in 1983. Last February Gallo triumphantly announced that the virus in the French specimens, taken from an AIDS-stricken fashion designer known as "Bru," was markedly different from the virus discovered in the U.S. But this news only heightened the mystery of how the two labs eventually isolated identical viruses...