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...article "Moving Beyond the Spotted Owl," (March 18) Yuri Agrawal asks "whether the natural world has any value in and of itself, divorced from any utility to the human species." It may be argued that to divide humanity from the rest of the natural world is antithetical to the cause of environmentalism, which seeks to include humans in its calculus, as a part and parcel of the complex processes that drive natural systems. But apart from the emotional "tree-huggers" and "rainbow children" whose goal is caricatured as a return to some form of noble savagery, there appears...
However, I have yet to find an answer to my original question, whether the natural world has any value in and of itself, divorced from any utility to the human species. Can birds, trees, the oceans and the atmosphere ever be more than economically or scientifically significant to us? Yuri Agrawal '00 is a biology concentrator in Mather House...
MOSCOW: Good thing the Russians see her as Ms. Moneybags: Madeleine Albright got a rough ride from Moscow mayor and presidential candidate Yuri Luzkhov Monday, but found Russia's government pliable by comparison. "She's asking for Moscow to accept unpalatable positions on issues ranging from missile treaties to Kosovo, but the Russians have their backs to the wall," says TIME Moscow correspondent Andrew Meier. "The IMF money on which their budget depends has been frozen, which makes it essential to play along with U.S. requests...
JANUARY 1984: The Kremlin says Yuri Andropov, absent from public view for more than 120 days, is feeling better after suffering from "a cold." One month later, he dies...
...that has been withheld out of concern over Moscow's economic intentions, Primakov used the meeting as a fence-mending exercise. "The last meeting between the two sides was disastrous because Russian officials started shouting that they wouldn't be treated like a developing country," says TIME Moscow correspondent Yuri Zarakhovich. "But if you don't want to be treated that way, you shouldn't beg for money. So this time, Primakov provided an example of how to deal with someone on whom you depend...