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...right, I know the ecologically correct line: "They won't bother you if you don't bother them." But who knows what bothers a bear? Take that fellow who was innocently jogging in Grand Teton National Park in August 1994 and ended up contributing an entire muscle group, the sartorius, to some grizzly's brunch. Or there was the guy who returned to his rental cabin in Alaska to find a black bear "feeding on" his erstwhile wife, as a newspaper tactfully put it. Not to mention any number of sleeping campers whose sleeping bags were somehow mistaken...
RECOVERING. EMERSON FITTIPALDI, 49, two-time Indy 500 winner, after surgery to correct a broken bone in his neck suffered when he crashed into a wall at the Marlboro 500 in Michigan. Doctors say he can resume racing, but Fittipaldi thinks otherwise: "I had a message from the Lord...It looks like I'm not going to race again...
...wait for that dispatcher to pass it onto the Atlanta Police Department, and they would pass it on to Olympic security who would put out an advisory to all security via the radio. Unfortunately...that call never came. By blind bad fortune, if this plan is correct, this one time glitch happened when the call was not passed on as he calculated...
...million Olympics visitors who converged on Atlanta last week are expected to generate millions of pounds--possibly as much as 90 million pounds--of garbage. To help keep Atlanta tidy and ecologically correct, the latest Use Less Stuff newsletter from the Partners for Environmental Progress--a Michigan-based coalition of business, consumer and government groups--offers a few tourist tips...
...about time a magazine flushed out the news about the politically correct but poorly performing low-flow toilet [SCIENCE, July 1]. My experience is that the new toilets are an embarrassment to our technically advanced society. Why does one have to reflush to remove floating stuff that just didn't wash away the first time, only to flush again and get some new surprises? And a person cannot go away for a few days without making sure everything got flushed away, or he may risk returning to a house that has a new odor. Looks like environmentalists had better...