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...happy to receive [the petition]," Verba said. "I understand it expresses a concern. I don't dismiss this as just [people] signing anything...
Chemical manufacturers dismiss these speculations, arguing that nobody has come close to showing a cause-and-effect relationship. In fact, the evidence for a chemical-infertility link does remain largely circumstantial. "There is no smoking gun," admits J.P. Myers, who is director of the environmentalist W. Alton Jones Foundation and one of the book's co-authors. (The others are science reporter Dianne Dumanoski and World Wildlife Fund zoologist Theo Colborn...
...pitcher Rene Arocha became the first Cuban national-team member to defect, and he soon established himself with the St. Louis Cardinals. There have been a few other defectors--Oakland Athletics pitcher Ariel Prieto and New York Mets shortstop Rey Ordonez--whom the Cubans tried to dismiss as second-rank malcontents. But when Fernandez got into Cubas' van last July, they could no longer make that claim. He was, after all, 22-0 in international competition, with a 1.62 era. And he was not considered a security risk...
...sickened but glad that Patrick J. Buchanan won the New Hampshire Republican primary. Here he stands, no longer an intemperate renegade we can dismiss, but a major contender for the Republican presidential nomination. Now we must face him in all of his abundant squalor...
Safety is supposed to be ensured by 5,002 new National Police. The U.S. has invested $50 million to create a force many Haitians dismiss as ti police, meaning little police--not a term of admiration. Most are under 20, have spent just four months in training and do not know what to do with the weapons in their hands. They have no leadership or field supervision, no internal rules or discipline. They don't even have vehicles to get to the scene of a crime. "We would not put rookie police in the U.S. into the situations these young...