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...extraordinary concentrations of radon, a radioactive gaseous element that can cause cancer. The technicians were so startled by their finding that they ran their test a second time. The result was the same: the samples showed the house contained what turned out to be the highest concentration of the colorless, odorless, tasteless gas ever found in the U.S. The Pennsylvania department of environmental resources estimates that by living in the radon-tainted environment for one year, Watras, 34, and his wife Diane, 33, had been exposed to the equivalent of 455,000 chest X rays, which increased their risk...
Could a relatively colorless manager like GIOVANNI CARDINAL BATTISTA RE, head of the Congregation of Bishops, ride such a sentiment to St. Peter's chair? Probably not. More likely, the electors will try to find a John Paul--like inner glow combined with a head for institutional detail. Says Chicago's FRANCIS CARDINAL GEORGE: "Maybe you have to do both...
...streets out of the country to a world hungry for news of Poland's awakening dissent. Later, in 1989, she was appointed spokeswoman for the government of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Poland's first democratically elected Prime Minister. Niezabitowska's charisma and no-nonsense demeanor stood in marked contrast to the colorless apparatchiks who had given up power just a few months before. It was no fluke that Niezabitowska became the face of Poland's Third Republic: she symbolized a clean break with the country's communist past. Or did she? Today, that break looks a lot messier. Niezabitowska...
...Harvard men’s basketball team, however, ending the year at 7-7 in Ivy League play—and 12-15 overall—means a great deal more than that. A record that might signify an average, pedestrian, colorless season for other teams signals something very different for this year’s edition of the Crimson. Getting back to the solid ground of .500 represents a return to respectability, and the successful resuscitation of a program that just one year ago was in shambles...
...colorless civil ceremony that will formalize their relationship approaches, one thing feels absolutely certain: there will be no more excitement from these two. They'll never stray or break another's heart. They'll never again be recorded while having phone sex - or if they are the transcript will not be published . They'll never mortify their parents again, embarrass their children, or shock their friends. And, of course, they'll never, ever divorce...