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...species of premed, feared by all phyla of preprofessionals, violates all codified premed mores. They fiendishly slice out copies of past years' final exams from library bound volumes, using scalpels smuggled from their labs. They magnetize videotapes of past lectures. These future physicians have even been known to pour acid on classmates' notes when they go to the bathroom...
...opened shelters; churches converted their basements into temporary dormitories; soup kitchens doubled their seating capacity. When the problem only grew worse, city officials across the nation sought to drive beggars from their tunnels and parks and public doorways. The homeless became targets; sleeping vagrants were set afire, doused with acid and, in a particularly horrific attack in New York City last Halloween, slashed with a meat cleaver. Finally came resignation. After years of running hurdles over bodies in train stations, of being hustled by panhandlers on the street, many urban dwellers moved past pity to contempt, and are no longer...
AFTER THE WARMING (PBS, Nov. 21, 8 p.m. on most stations). Environmental documentaries continue to pour forth like acid rain. This one is sparked by a lucid, witty host, James Burke (Connections), who "looks back" from the year 2050 to see what disasters global warming has wrought...
...rats. Rapeseed oil was relegated to American industrial uses, like lubricating heavy machinery or putting the shine in glossy paper. Oil from a new strain of the plant won FDA approval as a cooking oil in 1985. Even then, manufacturers had to label products, unappetizingly, as low-erucic-acid rapeseed oil. Finally, in 1988, the FDA allowed the product to be called by the name used in Canada, where most canola is produced. Soon thereafter its reputation took...
...these empirical studies, all of which focus on the industrialized world, researchers are trying to trace the evolution of government debates about acid rain, global climate change and ozone depletion. Besides looking at the scientific terms in which the debates are framed, researchers are looking at how politicians decide which course of action to take in response to environmental problems, and what role experts play in the process...