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...explosion at an Italian chemical plant in 1976, more than 700 people in the town of Seveso were evacuated. Some of them have never been allowed to return to their homes, which are still contaminated. About 350 lbs. of dioxin were contained in the 11 million gal. of the herbicide sprayed on Viet Nam. Dioxin can cause a variety of torments, including a skin disorder called chloracne, liver damage and cancer. In addition, a researcher for the Food and Drug Administration once estimated that dioxin is "100,000 to a million times more potent" than thalidomide in causing birth defects...
...aside for a multi-year program to help utility companies buy new boilers and smokestack scrubbers needed to convert from oil to coal. Until the last days of budget preparations in mid-December, the President's economic advisers were urging a new gasoline tax of 50? per gal. as the most powerful conservation measure. But after Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark's December defeat over a proposal to raise gasoline and other taxes, the White House quickly tabled the suggestion...
...spectacularly in recent weeks, to a peak of $50 per oz., were equally extreme. In London the metal closed at $37.50, and in New York at $35.50. In some cities, merchants did a curious trade in selling everything from gasoline to bacon for a mere 5? or 10? per gal. or lb.-just so long as customers paid in pre-1965 coins, which were still worth many times face value because of their silver content. Even copper went through contortions. It shone, lost luster, then brightened to $1.30 per lb. If copper reaches $1.50, pennies will be worth more than...
...kissing her on the forehead as a spontaneous gesture of affection. He was formally reprimanded, the first known action in a sexual harassment case at the university. Said his accuser, Helen Sahadi York of Brooklyn: "I just saw him as patronizing and somewhat sexist-he calls every woman a gal-then it was very obvious when he kissed me." York insists the kiss was "psychologically damaging in itself," and registered her complaint "out of feminist consciousness and to test the system. I think it's very important that a sexist act receive public punishment...
...Congress approves, the program would also extend to the year 2000 the exemption that gasohol now enjoys from the 40 federal tax on each gallon of gasoline. The tax break adds up to 400 per gal. of ethanol since there is only 10% alcohol in each gallon of gasohol. The benefit only partly offsets gasohol's cost disadvantage. The wholesale price of a gallon of ethanol can be as much as $1.70 vs. about 85? for premium unleaded gas; at the pumps, gasohol typically retails for 6? to 8? more even with the federal tax advantage. Adding together...