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...figure meant to represent Royal Cortissoz, the much feared conservative who had dubbed modernism "Ellis Island art." It is a paper doll cut from one of Cortissoz's own reviews, mounted on a pair of roller skates for fast passage through the galleries, and holding a vacuum cleaner to dispose of modernist trash...
...Clean-Air Act went a long way toward making the air we breathe cleaner and healthier, but it didn't go far enough. Despite the tons of lead, sulfur dioxide and other combustion products filtered from the atmosphere, millions of Americans suffer from pollution-related breathing disorders, including asthma and bronchitis. In 1993 the American Lung Association sued the Environmental Protection Agency to make it re-evaluate its standards for particulates--very fine dust particles (about one twenty-fifth the diameter of a human hair)--after studies showed that they can lodge deep in the lungs and may contribute...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I'm a strong proponent of a balanced budget, of tax relief for the middle class and of a healthier, safer, cleaner environment...
...express concern about the Taliban out loud, but they certainly had reason to wonder: at the first Taliban-attended Friday prayer meeting, soldiers forced passersby into mosques at gunpoint. At the Malali High School, Siad Bibi knew that her life had turned a terrible corner. She was a cleaner until the Taliban decreed that she could not leave her house, which is right next door, without her husband, who is old and ill. "Now I have no work. I can't go outside," she says. She adds that the situation is even worse for Kabul's estimated 25,000 widows...
...dirty little secret is out. Researchers staked out public toilets and discovered that roughly 4 out of 10 Americans do not WASH THEIR HANDS after using the toilet. Women are cleaner than men: 74% of them wash up, compared with 61% of males...