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...ultimately lead to the reauthorization, and possible strengthening, of the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act. But the debate will be long and difficult. Environmental groups such as the N.R.D.C. want stricter enforcement of the existing rules, along with new or tougher standards on contaminants like radioactive radon gas and arsenic. Lined up on the other side are state and local governments and water utilities, which insist they don't have enough money to comply with the law as it is, let alone additional rules. The regulations should be relaxed, they say, not strengthened...
...ARSENIC: The dangers of low-level exposure are still being debated, but some 350,000 people may be taking in more than the EPA allows...
...While no other officials have gone as far as North Carolina's, 23 states have passed laws regulating the industry's water-quality and -labeling standards. Several, like Georgia, require companies to provide documented proof of their sources for water. Vermont requires bottlers to disclose any amounts of lead, arsenic and nitrate in their beverages. Spurred by criticism that its enforcement has been lax, the Food and Drug Administration this month began drafting tough new rules for the industry...
Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace is an American classic, an off-beat comedy set in an old-fashioned and "peaceful" house in Brooklyn. This apparently traditional family gradually reveals its many layers of insanity with increasing surprise and suspense. This production coordinates the script's confusion, simultaneous dialogues and misunderstandings with admirable dexterity, and keeps the audience on edge for the whole two hours and 15 minutes...
Directing Arsenic and Old Lace is a challenge, requiring the coordination of physical farce and fast-paced verbal humor. Scott Schwartz incorporates eleborate action and even acrobatics into his production; characters prowl and struggle in the dark with corpses on their backs, and Officer Brophy even performs a spiffy cartwheel before pinning Jonathan Brewster...