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...very obvious hazard," said Sally Alcorn, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association, a sponsor of the Winterfest. Alcorn said that a sharp curve in the slide's track collapsed yesterday morning, leaving a slide which "would have sent riders flying into Au Bon Pain [the adjacent bakery]," had officials not decided to destroy the structure...
Cigarette smokers and handgun owners pose a far greater public health hazard than do AIDS carriers. Yet there are no suggestions to send them off to the gas chambers--oops, I mean "hospitals and special treatment centers...
THERE IS NO doubt that cigarette smoking has become a lot less popular since it has been recognized as a serious health hazard. Tobacco companies made a lot of money when people thought it was perfectly safe to smoke a pack or two a day. But prior to the Surgeon General's report cigarette smokers did not choose to begin using an addictive and deadly drug; they chose to use a product that was advertised as being entirely harmless. If tobacco companies made an honest mistake about the health effects of cigarettes, no one can blame them. But if they...
Today, all the small shops and residential tenants have been relocated. The graffiti-scrawled building--an architectural anchor in the neighborhood--stands empty, an eyesore to the community and a potential safety hazard. On top of that, the University is losing thousands of dollars each day that site remains inactive...
Three faults in the Ring of Fire, an earthquake-prone region around the Pacific rim, present a potential hazard to UCLA: the southern San Andreas fault, the Newport-Inglewood fault, and the Santa Monica fault. There is a 50 percent chance that a major earthquake--registering a minimum of eight on the Richter scale--will occur in the next 20 years at the San Andreas fault, the report said...