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...rest of the country, a fact that is starkly obvious at the main Israeli checkpoint, near the Lebanese village of Batir al Chouf. Every day the roadway teems with hundreds seeking passage between southern Lebanon and the north. Israeli sentries separate the men from the women, then methodically inspect baggage and examine papers...
...give them some peace." He idled the engine down while the loons swam around a point and out of sight. Just after the young are hatched, loons move operations from the nest to a brooding area. With the family removed, Fair and Minor crept slowly into the cove to inspect the floating nest, a nest the preservation committee had set out in the spring. It is more raft than nest, actually about 6 ft. square, framed with cedar logs, filled with sod and sedge. Loons nest naturally on land, where raccoons feast on loon eggs. Preservation committee = artificial floating nests...
...basic problem in this new danger is that the government's chief regulatory agency--the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)--does not have the manpower to inspect even a significant minority of the thousands of workplaces around the country. It oversees 2800 inspectors, only a small portion of all the workplaces covered by the Occupational Safety Administration Act. Even if the agency had the requisite resources, it would probably not even know what to look for. The electronics industry is only beginning to learn how to analyze hazards of the workplace--especially long-term threats to worker health. OSHA...
Throughout the years of the Khmer Rouge atrocities, claims Shawcross, most Westerners remained either ignorant or downright skeptical of refugee reports of mass slaughter, but as soon as Viet Nam invaded and permitted a few foreigners to inspect the ghostly nation, the West responded vigorously. The press reported a "holocaust"; Washington increased aid to Kampuchean refugees by a factor of ten (to $69 million); five international relief agencies, including the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations Children's Fund, 60 private volunteer bodies and the interests of 60 governments converged upon the broken land...
While Dykstra attacks the media hype of subjects such as soap-opera wives and Prince William's wardrobe, her best work pokes giggles into the generation gap. Climbing three flights of stairs to inspect her 23-year-old son's first apartment left her feeling "like Jane Fonda's mother in Barefoot in the Park." Her teen-age daughter is fond of making over Mother: "Mom, lemme mayo your hair." And a saccharine greeting card, "To a Special Daughter," prompted Dykstra to write: "It's their knack for leaving razors face up in the shower that...