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...fires from halogen lamps is fairly small. There has been only one fire at Harvard reportedly caused by a halogen. Halogens are only dangerous in the hands of the monumentally stupid: someone foolish or careless enough to dry sheets on a 900-degree lamp will find other ways to burn down the dorm...
More broadly, the fires may signal a last wheeze of radicalism within environmentalism. When radicals lose arguments, they burn things, thereby rendering themselves unable to effect real change. Earth Liberation Fronters forsook the demands of democracy (reason, persuasion) when they formed the loose-knit movement in 1992. Some say they were angry that their mother group, Earth First!, wouldn't promote sabotage. Others theorize that Earth Firsters orchestrated the split to deflect blame for "monkey wrenching," as these tactics are called, from the main organization. Whatever the case, Fedor says the ELFs are experienced monkey wrenchers. Last year they allegedly...
...place is destroyed and not destroyed; it is both the ghost and the living thing. Its overgrown lawn is as thick as thatch. Its chimney tips like a cocked hat. At dusk its side wall, blasted by the dying autumn light, shows in a fierce and pathetic white--a burn victim in a sheet...
Although the building's new three-tiered filter system, installed last winter, should prevent the release of smoke into the atmosphere, Huber, who lives nearby at 20 Prescott St., complained that at times she can still detect fumes which "make your eyes burn...
...supermarket-check-out racks with alluring packaging and absurdly tasty-sounding flavors: chocolate banana split, java chip, mocha latte swirl. But unlike candy and cookies, energy bars have staked out the nutritional high ground. They promise guilt-free bursts of energy and obscure but seemingly healthful extras--antioxidants, "fast-burn nutrition technology" and, in the breathless words of one, "31,000 mg amino acids...