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Impressed with recent trademark successes in Japan and the U.S., administrators said yesterday they intend to license the University name and shield in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Eventually, they said they hope to make the trademark truly international...
...American Samoa, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Cook Islands, New Zealand, the Governor of Hawaii and environmental groups have all dumped on the plan. They contend that the trip is hazardous and that the new $240 million incinerator on Johnston Island may not be ready to handle the disposal task safely. Hawaii Democratic Governor John Waihee argues that the Johnston plant should first complete a 16-month test period. Other critics fear smokestack emissions will contaminate the ocean food chain...
...Simon Williams, who the day before had been doing a fingertip push-up to calculate a similar shot, anticipates that Cleland will attempt a triple peel and, incidentally, not stain his immaculate summer whites. Australia's Cleland, like 23 of the other best players from Ireland, England, New Zealand, Canada, Australia and the U.S., has come to what some consider the best croquet court in the world to wrest the title from New Zealand's Stephen Jones. "Bloody good," says Williams of the three-ball break. Cleland goes on to defeat Jones, 26-12, in a 90-minute match...
...natural heir. But after Uruguayan officials extradited an accused money launderer and assured the U.S. of further cooperation, cartel financiers began scurrying for alternatives. Among the prospects being watched by investigators: Vanuatu, a Pacific island republic formerly known as the New Hebrides; the Cook Islands, a protectorate of New Zealand; and the island group of Palau, which is about to legalize gambling, a business that generates the kind of cash flow money washers love to swim...
...forms of CFS. The first documented CFS-like epidemic occurred in Los Angeles more than 50 years ago, and a serious one struck 1,136 people in Iceland in 1948. A huge outbreak in 1984 affected as many as 100,000 people in the U.S., Canada and New Zealand, and fresh reports have popped up steadily since then. While CFS seems to strike young professionals with energetic life-styles particularly hard, CDC's Gunn says it was a mistake to label it a yuppie disease, since it affects "people of all ages, from all walks of life...