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CONSOLIDATED EDISON spokesmen also enjoy denying that the project will cause any adverse environmental effects. The company will cite upon request a study by the New York State Conservation Department, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries indicating that only 2.5 per cent of the striped bass in the Hudson would be killed by the plant's operation. It does not often cite more recent testimony showing an impact closer to 25 per cent, nor the rumor that the original report misplaced a decimal point...
...manufacture proteins and ribonucleic acid (RNA), which some researchers believe play a role in learning and memory storage. After 20 or 30 years, says Dr. Noble, two or three drinks a night on an empty stomach may impair a person's learning ability. Both Stokes and Noble cite studies showing premature and irreversible destruction of brain cells after years of heavy drinking...
...small doses, it can cause cancer and genetic mutations. To guard against harmful amounts escaping into the environment, the nuclear industry, following standards set and enforced by the AEC, has equipped plants with so many redundant safety features that the chance of a major accident seems infinitesimal. The critics cite "Murphy's Law"-if anything can go wrong, it will-and point out that after a year of operation, the average big nuclear plant contains 1,000 times as much radioactivity as the Hiroshima bomb...
Novak and other admirers cite Thomas' present-day usefulness in varying ways. A number of prominent ethicists, for example, find considerable relevance in such concepts as his understanding of moral habits and his conviction that acts must be consistent with the essence of human "being." Along with Aquinas' moral philosophy, Oxford Professor Anthony Kenny cites his work in metaphysics and philosophical theology among the achievements that "entitle him to rank with Plato and Aristotle, with Descartes and Leibnitz, with Locke and Hume and Kant...
Even nongolfers, that quietly bitter minority group, stretch and bask, albeit sheepishly, in the Wodehouse prose. In self-justification they cite his storytelling powers. Faced with an important question like "Who was Legs Mortimer?" only Wodehouse could reply, "That was precisely what Angus McTavish wanted to know when he saw him blowing kisses at Evangeline Brackett from the clubhouse canteen," thereby ensuring a rapt and docile audience. Gloom is kept down to the essential minimum and balanced by modest quantities of sex and violence, as in The Salvation of George Mackintosh, in which the beautiful Celia attempts to murder...