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Part of the problem with EPA's management of the Superfund over the past five years stems from Reagan's initial choice of top officials who were ill- prepared to handle the difficult mandate. Anne Burford, a Colorado lawyer and Republican Party fund raiser, was tapped in 1981 to head EPA; at White House urging, she approved the selection of Rita Lavelle, a California publicist who had worked for a chemical company (Aerojet General Corp.), to direct the Superfund start-up. In the mismanagement that followed, Lavelle was convicted of perjury for denying any involvement in EPA's dealings with...
Richard Lamm, Governor of Colorado: "There are two types of AIDS patients. Either you're dying or you're dead. Given the limited number of health- care dollars we have, money might be better spent on finding a cure, rather than on (keeping patients alive with) needlessly cruel and expensive treatment...
...ones, ranging in thickness from 20 to 150 miles. The plates are in constant motion, riding on the molten mantle below and normally traveling at the pace of a millimeter a week, equivalent to the growth rate of a fingernail. Geophysicist Bill Spence of the U.S. Geological Survey in Colorado says, "They're just like a mobile jigsaw puzzle." The plates' travels result in continental drift, the formation of mountains, volcanoes--and earthquakes...
...national coaches' poll released yesterday, the Harvard women's soccer team (3-0) moved into a tie for eighth place with Colorado College...
FOOTNOTE: *Bishop John T. Walker of Washington, D.C., the runner-up, was the first black ever nominated for the post. The other candidates: Colorado's William Frey and Alabama's Furman Stough...