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Very few of the people in Washington with their finger on the panic button have ever seen the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (Murkowski is planning to lead a Senate delegation here when the weather warms up.) For those who do travel to Alaska's far north, the experience stretches the imagination. To visit a new drilling station in Prudhoe, one that extends only a few acres on the surface but can access 75 square miles underground, or fly over a convoy of trucks spraying water on the tundra to form ice roads strong enough to bear the weight of mobile...
Despite the inclement weather, Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Provost Harvey V. Fineberg '67 were not at home when the protestors visited...
Discouraged by the unpleasant weather and empty houses, the students decided to split up--only one small group went to Rudenstine's house, while another group went to see if any administrators were spending Valentine's Day at Mass Hall...
...problem Swift could face is drumming up support for Cellucci's $1.2 billion tax cut, which could drain money from health care and education. Swift's opponents, such as State Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 (D.-Chelsea), have noted that the tax cut may work in a fair-weather economy but could have serious repercussions in the forecasted slowdown...
What might have been a competent formulaic romance earns an added luster in A Student of Weather (Counterpoint; 368 pages; $24) thanks to Canadian author Elizabeth Hays' deft variations on and additions to familiar themes. Two sisters, Lucinda, 17, and Norma Joyce Hardy, 8, fall in love with the older man who visits their father's farm in Saskatchewan during the 1930s to study local plants and Dust Bowl weather patterns. Maurice Dove ought to fall for the beautiful and virtuous Lucinda, who runs the household in place of her deceased mother, but it is Norma Joyce, plain and engagingly...