Word: epa
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...White House's strenuously friendly new Internet site (http://www.whitehouse.gov) Users can also "tour" the mansion (except the family quarters) and download cartoons poking fun at Al Gore. More in the familiar style of the federal government are the retrievable studies and press releases from the likes of the EPA and the Small Business Administration. White House officials stress that the site was designed by non-taxpayer-funded interns...
Nevertheless, Mr. Frank attempted both at the debate and in his column to insinuate that I illegally and/or unethically obtained a $24,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by using the Undergraduate Council's strong influence with the federal government to line my pockets...
Simply put, these charges are utterly ridiculous and represent the kind of cynicism that plagues many students at this University. I did receive a grant from the EPA, supervised by a professor here at Harvard, and I used that money to start a group called Students for an Energy-Efficient Environment...
Ironically, our efforts even convinced The Crimson itself to commit to energy-efficiency by becoming a Partner in EPA's Green Lights Program...
...little greater than the 5 or 10 nanograms of dioxin and comparable chemicals found in a typical kilogram of human tissue. It is not surprising that these compounds are so biologically active, since they are metabolized in a fashion similar to natural chemicals. Says Linda Birnbaum of the EPA's Health Effects Research Laboratory, who was one of the driving forces behind the agency's decision to study dioxin: "You name almost every hormone system in the body, and dioxin interacts with it. And when you're dealing with hormones, they all talk to each other. When you ring...