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Some foreign shores are no better off. Remote beaches on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula are littered with plastics and tires. Fish and birds are being choked out of Guanabara Bay, the entryway to Rio de Janeiro, by sewage and industrial fallout. Japan's Inland Sea is plagued by 200 red tides annually; one last year killed more than 1 million yellowtail with a potential market value of $15 million. In the North Sea chemical pollutants are believed to have been a factor in the deaths of 1,500 harbor seals this year. Last spring the Scandinavian fish industry was hard...
Wallace's experience as a student confined to a wheelchair was a four-year struggle against frustration. As a freshman he had access to two suites in the entire Yard, both located in one entryway in one dormitory. As an upperclassman in Leverett House, one of the three houses at the College even partially wheelchair accessible, he had no access to the library, common rooms or most students' rooms. And, when the University said living on the 10th floor would be a fire hazard for him, Wallace enlisted the aid of a Boston lawyer to convince Harvard...
...student drama group, the common room productions will become a regular Tuesday night event at the Houses. Each week the group will travel from house to house, banging on doors and urging residents to come to a play in a randomly-chosen common room in their entryway...
...Zweber '91 says he requested a smoke-free room on his housing application form, but one of his four roommates smokes. The FDO "should stress the smoking situation more. Second-hand smoke really bothers me," says Zweber, who says that four or five people in his assigned smoke-free entryway smoke on a regular basis...
Angered by Washington's decision to reflag and escort Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf, Iran announced with great fanfare that it would stage four days of war games in the Strait of Hormuz, the entryway to the gulf. In case there was any doubt about the intent of the maneuvers, they were code-named "Martyrdom." One of the reflagged ships, the fully loaded Gas Prince, slipped quietly out of harm's way and toward its destination in Japan before the exercises began. But the supertanker Bridgeton, damaged last month by a mine that may have been planted by the Iranians...