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...Science authors do not oppose all asbestos removal, but they contend that it should be done only when the level and type of airborne particles are clearly hazardous. Given the cost of asbestos removal -- $20 or more per sq. ft., or 100 times the price of installing it -- that argument should be a weighty one for policymakers...
...nation of 70 million gun owners, the N.R.A. speaks to a venerable American attachment to firearms. There may be no other society in which guns enjoy such a deeply embedded prestige or such enduring glamour. Many Americans contend that the wide distribution of firepower among all levels of society was crucial to establishing the republic and is essential to maintaining it. The N.R.A. has gone further, putting firearms at the center of a faith so fierce that the ordinary terms of political belief -- words like "conviction" and "position" -- may not be sufficient to grasp it. Says N.R.A. Executive Vice President...
...hopes to wrest first place from the firm fists of the Big Green (8-6 overall, 3-0 Ivy). Since Dartmouth remains the lone undefeated team in Ivy league play, this won't be an easy task. Besides the Big Green's record, the Crimson also must contend with the cycles of recent history...
...with All-Ivy guard James Blackwell and the 7-ft., 1-in. Walter Palmer to contend with, the Crimson will need all the help...
...lingering ghost of the last City Council was put to rest Monday night, as the new council voted to repeal a December ordinance that critics contend could have removed hundreds of apartments from the rent control system...