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Another Boston lawyer, Gerald A. Berlin, agreed in part with Kaitz. "I would think Harvard's standard of responsibility in this case is minimal, or totally minimal, unless there have been previous attachments with regard to the pond as a hazard." Berlin said...
Another consideration, Jaffe said, is that any negligence must be determined with the understanding that children, not adults, were attracted to any potential hazard on the University's land...
Alive and Well. For most coronary patients such hazard is acceptable. "Risks are statistics," explains a doctor in Rachel Mackenzie's newly published Risk (Viking; $3.95), an account of her experience with heart surgery. "So far as you're concerned, they're 100% or they're zero." The doctor is right, and for those who survive heart surgery, the prognosis is promising. Of Johnson's revascularization patients, 77% have survived at least two years after their operations; some of Effler's earliest patients have lived three years with their new plumbing. Most bypass patients...
...Island Sound for Massachusetts or Maine is in violation of the law for the first few miles if he has an overboard flushing system. Yet he cannot cruise far beyond the Sound unless he has such a system. Meantime, critics say, his holding tank fills up and poses another hazard: the possibility of explosion from gases generated by sewage...
...Francisco's street people have apparently turned polluters. Roche, who is head of his department's legal-affairs office, contends that hundreds of youths, squatting in buses, trucks, campers and cars, are littering city streets with garbage and human wastes. Worried about the growing health hazard, the San Francisco board of supervisors has voted to ban such motorized camp-ins from city streets between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. If the mayor signs the ban into law, as is expected, anyone caught living in vehicles parked on city streets between those hours may be fined...