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...removing the hanger, Nieman set off fire alarms in Hollis and Stoughton Halls. Both were completely evacuated, but Stoughton residents were allowed back in their rooms about 10 minutes after the 7:30 p.m. alarm...
...alarm went off with Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring and has been sounding ever since. We live, environmentalists warn, in a world laced with dangerous chemicals, from powerful pesticides to toxic industrial wastes like dioxin and PCBs. Despite periodic waves of public concern and efforts at government regulation (the 1972 banning of DDT in the U.S., for example), the chemicals are still found in small but measurable amounts in air, water, soil -- and our own tissues. Many scientists have long argued that even tiny doses of pollutants can cause cancer in humans, but the contention is hotly disputed...
According to friends, Carter began talking openly about suicide. Part of his anxiety was over the Mitterrand assignment. But mostly he seemed worried about money and making ends meet. When an assignment in Mozambique for TIME came his way, he eagerly accepted. Despite setting three alarm clocks to make his early-morning flight on July 20, he missed the plane. Furthermore, after six | days in Mozambique, he walked off his return flight to Johannesburg, leaving a package of undeveloped film on his seat. He realized his mistake when he arrived at a friend's house. He raced back...
...easy to admire the energy and drive behind Clinton's activism. Those skeptical of government's doing social engineering rather than bathhouse construction register a mixture of wonder and alarm at a President so fixed in a belief that runs against the tide of public opinion and the fiscal capacities of modern government...
...soldiers from the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front. "We want to occupy all Rwanda," Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu declared on Thursday. "Indeed, for the credibility of the government, we have to occupy all Rwanda." Although Twagiramungu pledged the army would not seek revenge, his remarks only deepened the alarm of Hutu inside the enclave. The fears of those camped in the French zone intensified on Friday when Zairean paratroopers shut down the border, choking off the flow of refugees attempting to make it across the rusty bridge before the escape hatch closed. While thousands more stacked up behind them, Zaire...