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...biologists thought it was almost unscientific to get involved in conservation politics," says Lovejoy. "But no more. The rate of species loss is suddenly dawning on people." The warning has been heeded in government circles as well. The House of Representatives two weeks ago passed legislation sponsored by Gus Yatron, Democrat of Pennsylvania, mandating that the U.S. Agency for International Development set aside $10 million to preserve biodiversity...
...Thomas Eagleton of Missouri and Congressmen John Brademas of Indiana, Paul Sarbanes of Maryland and Benjamin Rosenthal of New York. Only Brademas and Sarbanes are of Greek extraction (there are only three other Greek Americans in Congress: Representatives Louis "Skip" Bafalis of Florida, Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Gus Yatron of Pennsylvania). None of them consider themselves part of a Greek lobby. "We prefer to think of ourselves as the rule-of-law lobby," says Brademas, whose 475,000 constituents include only about 450 Greek Americans. Explains Sarbanes: "We have simply sought to enforce a provision of the existing...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Alan J. Ansen 1G, David Kaufman 3G, Michael Yatron, Arthur G. Kogan 2G, Reinhold S. Schumann 1G, Walter F. Stettner 3G, and Walter A. Kaufman...
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