Word: accountants
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...flakes. But these days, the Vermont college also seems to be the place to go if you want to graduate a published writer. Just two years ago, while he was still a Bennington junior, Bret Easton Ellis hit the bestseller list with Less Than Zero, an up-in-coke account of Los Angeles life. The book was recently followed by The Rules of Attraction, a bright-lights-big-campus story about life at a small liberal arts school...
Pierson is one of the 300 or so children each year across the U.S. who murder one or both of their parents. Fathers are most often the victims. In recent years the frequency of such crimes, which account for just under 2% of all U.S. homicides, has remained stable, but the legal tactics used to defend the youthful killers have changed. More and more children are arguing that they acted in self-defense, admitting readily to the crime but pointing to years of abuse that left them fearful for their lives. As awareness of child abuse has increased, experts maintain...
Meanwhile, the toll rises. ATVs, which critics contend can flip over on rugged terrain, account for an estimated 20 deaths a month. Manufacturers, which include Honda and Yamaha, maintain that ATVs are safe if ridden properly...
...predict the existence of the ozone hole. After the hole was finally stumbled upon two years ago, Susan Solomon, a chemist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, and Rolando Garcia, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, plugged more numbers into NCAR's computer model to account for the Antarctic ice clouds. Bang! The hole appeared...
...clear whether ozone depletion in the Antarctic is an isolated phenomenon or whether it is an ominous warning signal of more slowly progressing ozone destruction worldwide. Data indicate that the decline over the past eight years is 4% to 5%. Scientists estimate that natural destruction of the ozone could account for 2% of that figure. The Antarctic hole could explain an additional 1%. The remaining 1% to 2% could simply be the result of normal fluctuations. As Albritton's research team reported, "A depletion of this magnitude would be very difficult to identify against the background of poorly understood natural...