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William E. Hassan, acting president of BWH, said yesterday an environmental study completed by the firm of HMM Associates as well as approval of MATEP's operation by the Masschusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering should demonstrate that downwash is harmless. But Jerome Aaron, MHPC's attorney, questioned the rigor and method of both the private and state examinations...
...restrictions State Department security agents resent most is a rule against carrying firearms on fraud investigations. "When you whip out that badge, it looks like any other badge," gripes an agent. "There's nothing on it that says we're not carrying guns and we're harmless. You really don't know who you're going to find. It could be John Dillinger." The agents regard the restriction as sure evidence of the State Department's snobbish disdain for cops. When the question of allowing the agents to be armed came...
...spores were difficult to destroy and might stay alive on the island for decades. In 1971, following a series of tests, officials concluded that the spores were no longer on the surface of the ground but had penetrated about 6 in. deep into the earth, where, presumably, they were harmless if not disturbed. As the years passed, the government regularly renewed the signs warning people not to set foot on the island, but did little else. A few visitors disregarded the notices, walked around Gruinard and came away unharmed...
This book does wile away an hour or two in a useless, harmless sort of way. It's doubtful that it will convert anyone, but it could make a nice hard-bound supplement to that magazine rack in the bathroom...
...evidence was incontrovertible. But his bizarre psychological state made a fair judicial verdict excruciatingly difficult to render. Milligan, you see, was found to have 24 distinct personalities within him, each one motivating him in different directions--a case of multiple personality never before diagnosed. Some of his personalities were harmless, others just bizarre. But when one, Ragen (Milligan had different first names for each personality) surfaced, Milligan became "the keeper of hate"--and a rapist...