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...restoration at times resembles gardening, it draws inspiration from a very different philosophy. Gardeners seek to improve on nature and tame its excesses. Restorationists, however, strive to return to the landscape the very things people find hostile, including fires, floods and all the noisome critters that help keep each ecosystem in healthy kilter. "The restorationist is a servant of nature, not of his or her personal whims or tastes," reflects William Jordan III, of the four-year-old Society for Ecological Restoration in Madison, Wis. "A prairie, for instance, is not altogether a pleasant place to be. Some people would...
...Juliet, teenage love has inspired poems, novels, movies and songs. It also inspired University of North Carolina researchers to design a five-year, $18 million survey of 24,000 youngsters in grades 7 through 11 to determine teen attitudes toward sex in the '90s. The study, ranging from the tame (hand holding) to the torrid (sodomy and oral sex), won funding from the National Institutes of Health in May. But last week Secretary of Health Louis Sullivan abruptly canceled the study because he feared it would contradict his stand against casual...
...single drug, derived from a Scandinavian soil sample, provided a stunning breakthrough in the effort to tame the immune system. Cyclosporine targets the killer T cells -- the cellular commandos that seek out alien tissues after other defenders have marked them for elimination. Within a few years of the drug's introduction, first-year survival rates for kidney recipients jumped from 50% to over 80%. Only a handful of drugs have had such an impact on the history of medicine...
...TAME YOURSELF...
...outset, the council seemed to have the potential for a tame year on the campus political scene...