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...list, alas, is long. Begin with public officials who have exploited the issue for 20 years, advocating phony feel-good nostrums like the current fad for drug testing in the workplace, as if mid-level bureaucrats were society's prime offenders. Joining the politicians in the dock are those antidrug crusaders who have either squandered credibility with exaggerated scare talk or strained credulity with prissy pronouncements. The media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between...
...Exxon, meanwhile, the nightmare keeps getting worse. After responding late and ineffectively to an accident that it could have prevented, the company finally refloated the crippled tanker last week, towing it about 25 miles to nearby Naked Island for temporary repairs. But Exxon had trouble finding a dry dock that would accept the vessel. Cowper, who had cited the company's bungled attempts to manage the cleanup and called on the Coast Guard to take over, gave qualified approval to a belated offer of aid from the Bush Administration. The President remained opposed to the Government's directing the cleanup...
...Radcliffe shells pulled in to the Weld Boathouse dock yesterday morning, the first question the rowers were asked by their teammates was not "Who won?" but rather, "By how much...
First choice is a Portland, Ore., dry dock, Iarossi said, but Oregon officials have raised concerns about accepting the ship. Iarossi said the ship won't trail any pollution while it is towed...
...come along with uncomfortable regularity on Capitol Hill. Hays Gorey knows that. TIME's chief congressional correspondent can't stay away from the beat he first covered more than 20 years ago. Back then, Gorey watched the Senate agonize over passing judgment on another of its own: in the dock in 1967 was Connecticut's Thomas Dodd, eventually censured for a misuse of campaign funds. Now happily back on the Hill after a two- decade hiatus reporting on national politics, Gorey finds Congress is still just as loath to bring down a colleague...