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...chemical agents may cause illness through a specific sequence of events that can affect everyone differently. They fear that a combination of nerve-gas exposure, prewar vaccinations against such toxins and environmental hazards like smoky oil fires may all trigger variations of the syndrome in different victims. Scientists have begun to explore the effect of minuscule doses of such gases. In the past it was thought that only amounts of nerve agents sufficient to cause near immediate harm were dangerous. But studies are under way to determine if momentary exposure to mere molecules of such poisons is equally deadly...
Dole is running so far behind in the polls that pundits have begun to speculate on the Democrats' chances for retaking Congress. Dole is actually lucky to be given the opportunity to debate Clinton; after all, Perot was shut out because the Commission on Presidential Debates ruled that he had no "realistic chance" of winning the November election...
City Councillor Francis H. Duehay '55 adds: "Charles Flaherty, who represented this district for 30 years, was a progressive politician who had a lot of experience in government. Alice Wolf has come up through the ranks in Cambridge and has 25 years in local government experience. Galluccio has just begun his career in local government...
Since last fall a slew of violent crimes occuring near and on campus have begun to belie the bucolic appearance of Harvard's grounds and its Cambridge environs. While the Harvard police and administration have certainly made some progress in recent years toward improving campus security, we feel that there is still more they can do to ensure an optimal level of safety...
...think of a more powerful message to kids," says Judy Briscoe, director of the Texas Youth Commission's Office of Delinquency Prevention, "than the originator of the Crips saying how wrong I was." Making street rounds, Sandra Davis, founder of the mediation service Mothers Against Gang Wars, has begun showing Williams' books to gang members. "I almost have to get physical with them to get the books back," she says. But some publishing professionals are less impressed. "These books dumb down the issue so much that I don't think they respect the situation as it really is," says Roger...