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...Lechmere Canal will be dredged and lengthened to create a park, and the old courthouse buildings off Cambridge St. will be renovated as offices and shopping areas...
...controls or reviews by independent scientists before it was released. That breach of standard scientific practice, said the panel, "was a disservice to the citizens most intimately concerned and to the public at large." The panel also found fault with an investigator who hinted at nerve damage among Love Canal residents: "Equivocal or ambiguous observations are likely to do more harm than good...
...authors of the challenged studies were understandably irritated. Cancer Researcher Beverly Paigen said that while her voluntary effort was only a preliminary study, "it would have been unethical to put it into a drawer and forget it." Jeered Love Canal Homeowner Marie Pozniak: "This is apparently the only place in the U.S. where you can eat, breathe and drink 240 poisonous compounds and be safe...
...panel did not deny the clear risk in living atop toxic pollutants. As Thomas put it: "Love Canal is obviously a miserable place, and I feel very sympathetic to the residents." It did say that before any rational decisions can be made about these dangers, they must be established by something more than what Thomas calls "fragmentary and poor science...
Many moderate Evangelicals are against Falwell too, but on different grounds. They resent the New Right's claim to speak for 45 million believers, especially on issues without specific biblical underpinnings, such as the Panama Canal or SALT II . They also think the suggestion that anyone who disagrees is sub-Christian is exactly what Evangelicals have long criticized in Protestant liberals. The Evangelical journal Christianity Today is disturbed that the New Right favors "prolife" and "profamily" causes but tends to ignore the Bible's teachings regarding justice, peace, and care for the poor...