Word: william
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Archaeologists from the Museum of London said Friday they have located part of William Shakespeare's Globe Theater...
Accompanied by photographer William Campbell, Gup saw his first elephant in the wild in Kenya's Tsavo National Park. "We were lying on our bellies near a water hole, waiting, when suddenly there they were -- a herd of seven elephants approaching the water hole. The little ones were frolicking and gamboling about, some of them locking their tusks and pressing their heads against each other in a kind of reverse tug-of-war. A pretty good-size bull noticed us. His ears flared in alarm, and he looked very menacing." Gup and Campbell tensed, but the bull did not charge...
Nine states have such programs, and 30 more are considering them. They have also become a key idea in drug czar William Bennett's war on illicit substances. Usually the programs fence off parts of state prisons into "boot camps," where 17-to-25-year-old first offenders convicted of drug or property crimes are held for three to six months. Between head shaving, close-order drills and servile work, the youthful felons are screamed and hollered at by correctional officers skilled in the art of humiliation. They are compelled to rise at dawn, eat meals in silence, speak only...
...pesticides is not vital to the well-being of the agricultural industry. According to Arnold Professor of Science William H. Bossert '59, despite the growers' claims of substantial declines in productivity, the actual difference in yield when no chemical pesticides are used is more in the range of 10-15 percent...
...Glasser '90 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Ross G. Forman '90 Susan B. Glasser '90 Brian R. Hecht '92 Rebecca L. Walkowitz '92 Editorial Editor: Katherine E. Bliss '90 Feature Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Colin F. Boyle '90 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor William H. Bachman '92 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Dhananjai Shivakumar...