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...this straight: Brown tied Harvard, 3-3, here Saturday night. Brown, the team that took a nap last November while the Crimson poured 10 pucks into the net. The team that finished at the bottom of the ECAC barrel. The team that still owns a 27-game winless streak...
...what happened last week. President Bush directed all federal agencies to meet the budget-deficit- reduction targets specified by the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings law by imposing $16.1 billion in across-the-board spending cuts. Worthy domestic-spending programs such as subsidized housing were cut the same 5.3% as pork-barrel projects like the Agricultural Extension Service. Under sequestration, the Defense Department faces a 4.3% chop, with important items like military readiness facing the same reduction as questionable projects like the Stealth bomber...
...easy to believe ourselves absolved of any responsibility for environmental destruction. After all, none of us has ever poured a barrel of toxic waste into a pristine stream. The very thought should apall us. But in the end, it is our adherence to the culture of convenience that leads others to such actions...
What happened to the other 199,000 bbl.? Exxon professes not to know, a curious stance for a company that in other circumstances makes a corporate fetish out of accounting for every last barrel in its inventory. "I'm not going to speculate how much oil is left and where it is," says Sexton. As much as 25% of the crude may have evaporated in the early days after the spill. Much of the rest, guesses Lars Foyn, a fishery expert with the Marine Research Institute in Bergen, Norway, has become diluted in the water and disappeared. Most...
...board of inquiry ruled out accidental causes, called the explosion a "wrongful, intentional act" and said it had found "foreign material" in the key gun barrel. The admirals theorized that a detonator had been placed between powder bags and that someone had rammed the bags more tightly than normal. Hartwig was, the Navy said, in the best position to direct this. The board did not cite a motive, and one of its members said it had "no hard evidence" to confirm reports that Hartwig may have been a homosexual who was distraught over the ending of a friendship with another...