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According to the EPA, its tests show that ocean burning has no discernible effects on air quality or marine life. The cost is approximately half that of onshore destruction. Opponents, however, brand all incinerator craft "leper ships." They point out that six European nations that have burned wastes on North Sea ships for more than a decade are talking about ending the practice. Concerned scientists contend that it may not be possible to maintain the required 2,400° F heat under seagoing conditions. This could allow the escape of dangerous emissions like dioxins. Those poisons would infect fish, opponents...
...Currier boat hounded the Dunster craft throughout the race and pelted them with everything from cantaloupe rinds to soggy hamburger buns...
Some rafts were not as sturdy as the Mather craft...
Lars A. Rierson '87's craft was the smallest of all the entrants--a kickboard. "I've been on three boats. I tried to wreck one of them and the other two I used to get warm on," said a shivering Rierson...
While these and other criticisms are not entirely new, as Bok admits, he believes the time is unusually propitious for reform. "Many forces have combined to alter the body of medical knowledge, the way in which doctors practice their craft, and the system of delivering health care services in the country," he writes. These forces have propelled many of the very questions Bok raises to the top of the agenda in med schools and hospitals around the country...