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...other chemicals may trigger cancer only if a certain threshold amount is present -- and that amount could be well over 1,000 times as great as the safety limit, i.e., above the level of most of the contamination at Times Beach. If so, the government has reason to amend its regulations on many compounds in addition to dioxin. One of the biggest beneficiaries would be the paper industry, which is under pressure to reduce the level of dioxin at its mills. Relaxing the current safety standard could save $1 billion in cleanup costs and prevent crippling lawsuits...
...supplies intelligence information indicating that such a nuclear facility exists -- and until the gulf-war cease-fire that had never happened. Says David Kyd, IAEA director of information: "If someone wants to engage in clandestine activity, they're gonna do it." A move will soon be made, however, to amend the treaty to make such "challenge" inspections mandatory and not voluntary, as they...
...eight years after he went to jail for jury tampering. A federal judge barred Hoffa last month from running for office because he has held a job "in the craft" for only half of the required two years. Even so, Hoffa aims to line up enough delegate votes to amend the union's constitution to allow him to seek the presidency. Meanwhile, jackets emblazoned with the phrase FRIENDS OF HOFFA, the slogan used by his father, have begun spreading across the country...
...many others. The Episcopal convention will debate a conservative counterblast from 60 bishops, led by William Frey, dean of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambler, Pa. The proposal would amend canon law to place all clergy "under the obligation to abstain from sexual relations outside of Holy Matrimony." Observes Frey: "Many of us believe that the sexual revolution has run its course, leaving in its wake thousands of broken marriages, a sharp rise in teenage pregnancies, millions of convenience- motivated abortions, a multibillion-dollar pornography industry and a mushrooming AIDS epidemic. What could be better news than the proclamation...
When President Bush promised to seek better cooperation from Mexico on the environment and to help supplanted workers, chances for an agreement took a giant step forward. Last week congressional committees endorsed Bush's authority to negotiate a deal that Congress must vote up or down but may not amend. This so-called fast-track authority is crucial, because no country wants to bother hammering out a pact that Congress can then turn inside out. Presuming Bush's negotiators clinch a deal like the recent one with Canada -- and Congress approves it -- North America could achieve a truly open common...