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...Breeding Grounds. Doctors disagree on the answer. The common technique for measuring pollution is counting the number of coliform, or intestinal bacteria in samples of water. These organisms are easily detected. Although they are usually harmless, they often coexist with more menacing microorganisms and viruses that cannot be discovered without more extensive testing. Hence the count provides a useful index of pollution. Yet levels that are regarded as safe by some public officials are rejected as dangerous by others...
...artist. The committee has been the butt of much criticism, particularly from artists who are not involved with the SoHo Artists' Association. Says Sculptor Don Judd, who owns an iron-front warehouse on Spring Street: "It is a threat, at least an insult, though possibly harmless since its operations seem unenforceable. Legalization won't mean much. You can't turn an area into an occupational ghetto. You can't say who is and isn't an artist. You can't throw citizens out. And none of this does anything about the problem of rising...
Tourist Object. This might seem harmless enough. But inflated prices feed a numbness back onto art itself. The Impressionist and old master market has been big news for so long now that nobody can look at a Monet without seeing in front of that exquisite paint a wall of dollar signs. The hedge against inflation inevitably becomes a hedge against perception. Its price has made the painting different, of an order other than art. Museums, which should resist this syndrome, tend to exploit it. Thus the Metropolitan got untold mileage out of the fact that it paid...
...with that complexity by ignoring a number of its main actors, the better to appreciate the intricacies of the remainder. I'm sure. But once you've excised John Jaymes of Young American Enterprises, Sam Cutler, the Dead with their bright ideas, once you've reduced Belli to a harmless comic figure, and the Stones to unwitting spectators of their own spectacle, who's loft but the Angels, and what's left but another melodrama, one in which beefy Alfred Jarrys play the villains, and everyone else the innocents. A self-defined outlaw gag, but not the kind of outlaws...
...been known since 1839. Pratt & Whitney also designed the fuel cells used in Apollo flights. But the specific and well-financed proposal to employ them en masse is new. For environmentalists, Powercel would deliver power with a plus: the only waste products of its chemical reaction are harmless water vapor, carbon dioxide, and a little heat. Its on-site use would eliminate unsightly power lines as well as the complex network of power plants, substations and generators...