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...less accurate reading of emissions. In November the U.S. Supreme Court will address the same measurement question in a case out of North Carolina. All those battles technically address smog and soot, not mercury, but where the first two go, the third follows. "Power plants are the 800-lb. gorilla," says John Walke, a project director with the Natural Resource Defense Council and a former attorney for the EPA. "Their [mercury] output is extraordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mercury Rising | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...while the Committee did not directly address the Fowler-Finn contract—the 800-pound gorilla in the room—members either pitted themselves against his views on the issues or defended them...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Schools Stall On Report Card Reform | 7/21/2006 | See Source »

...students is a decent kid: our hero, Kamiyama (dishy Takamasa Suga). In the first reel, he writes a letter home: "Oh, mom I?m a bit confused. Everyone looks like a yakuza." That?s not quite fair to the rain-gutter coalition on view at CHS. There?s gorilla sitting at one classroom desk, and a prancing tough guy called the Queen (Freddie Mercury with Toshiro Mifune?s menace), and a cigarette-puffing robot in a pink shirt. The entire group sends up fumes like an Iraqi oil factory, and when Kamiyama presses them to renounce smoking, they protest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Eastern Standard | 6/23/2006 | See Source »

...tough to pick between TV and print journalism? I've been addicted to TV since I emerged from the womb. I recently found a schedule I made for myself in fourth grade, which was all blocked out based on the TV schedule. When I got home, it was Magilla Gorilla, then The Andy Griffith Show. I think I allotted 15 minutes for dinner, and homework was done in front of the television. News was always on the schedule as well. I had a reading problem when I was a kid, so writing came a little slow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Anderson Cooper | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

...hostile takeover of a community. Ultimately, the working-class people who live there, including many recent immigrants, are no match for the sheer purchasing power of the University and its constituents. The fragile ecosystem of the Allston community will get crushed underfoot no matter how gingerly the 800-pound gorilla that is Harvard places its steps...

Author: By Brian J. Rosenberg | Title: Allston's Ambivalent Metamorphosis | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

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