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...mentally retarded students were fed small amounts of radioactive calcium in their breakfast cereal and iron supplements...
...laser-mapping experiment: "The topography of Eros reflects the object's whole history--it will tell us a lot about how it formed. And combined with the gravity measurements, it will tell us what the density is." That's important because in a large object like a planetesimal, iron and other metals sink to the core under gravity, while lighter rock stays closer to the surface. A very dense or a relatively light Eros would suggest that it was once part of a larger body that was later destroyed, a well-preserved relic of the solar system's violent youth...
Violence is, of course, more than statistics. Behind every number and percentage is a name, a face, and a grief. There is also a culpability and responsibility that we all share. The problem of youth violence is not a "ghetto" problem from which we can hide, behind the wrought-iron gates of Harvard. The problem is widespread and complicated, affecting children in rural and suburban areas as well as urban children. In 1987, 415,000 violent crimes occurred in or around schools. We all have a responsibility to provide a safe community for children--all children. Since we share...
...against his own nature. Pat Buchanan and I had known Father McGonigal at Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., in the mid-'50s, when McGonigal was the prefect of discipline there. McGonigal looked like a fire hydrant cased in a black cassock--short and squat, with iron muscle bulges. He radiated punitive rage. One morning he hammered a boy to the classroom floor with his fists and left him there with a concussion, the other boys too terrified to intervene. The Jesuits shipped McGonigal off to southern Maryland, to listen to the songbirds in a quieter parish...
...MOST CONGRESSIONAL OFfices, there is someone like Ann Eppard: the fierce gatekeeper deciding who sees the Congressman and who doesn't, the lieutenant whose years of iron loyalty have been rewarded with his deepest trust, the steward of his fund raising. Rarely are these staff members known outside the lawmaker's narrow orbit. But when Eppard left Capitol Hill the day after the 1994 election to start her own lobbying firm, many of the nation's richest interests were clamoring to sign her up, showering her with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees...