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There was plenty of other fuel for worry: reports of inexplicable fish kills, warnings against eating shellfish, tales of lakes and forests dying from acid rain. Who could forget that up to 12% of all U.S. houses suffer unsafe radon exposure? That by sending up chlorofluorocarbons used in coolants, man is still destroying the ozone layer that protects against ultraviolet rays...
...lone dissenter was Justice Antonin Scalia, who took the unusual step of summarizing his dissent aloud. In a lengthy argument that contained an acid reference to "our former constitutional system," he suggested that even the slightest diminution of Executive power by Congress is unconstitutional. If the Executive Branch cannot be trusted to investigate itself, he asserted, the voters and not Congress should remedy the situation...
Fast food too. In their week at a North Woods cabin, Nice Guy John Candy and his family encounter every unimaginative pestilence: bats, raccoons, stubborn horses, runaway water skis, acid indigestion, puppy love. And, worst of all, a plague of relatives led by Slime King Dan Aykroyd. The comic climax comes when a bear gets its buttocks fur blown off by a shotgun. Anyone out there laughing...
Every year six tons of chlorinated hydrocarbons, 11,500 tons of heavy metals and 1.5 million tons of nitrogen from fertilizers are deposited in the North Sea by rivers and acid rain. An additional 250,000 tons of liquid chemical waste are dumped annually from West German ships into the sea. In Bonn Environment Minister Klaus Topfer last week refused to link man-made pollutants directly to the seal deaths, but he did admit to a "very serious suspicion" that industrial wastes may have played key roles. Topfer has promised to end offshore dumping by the end of 1989. Environmentalists...
...Another acid-tongued writer once observed in a spasm of humanity that, "It is hard to laugh at people's need for romance and beauty"--a process Wolfe has made a career of. No matter what your avocation, you should take his advice. The best way to transcend the limits society imposes is to have sympathy when there is a knock on the door...