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Before making major investments in radon abatement, homeowners should take these uncertainties into account. It cannot hurt to buy a radon-testing kit, which generally costs less than $25. If repeated tests indicate a high level, professional testing is needed. While there is no magic number, a radon level in the hundreds would probably be grounds for action. If sealing cracks does not solve the problem, radon can often be flushed out by installing special fans and ventilation ducts. Weighing the options, however, could be done more dispassionately if the EPA would tone down its frightening rhetoric...
Even in the Ivy League, fans can be nutty. Princeton fans fill the arena when Kit Mueller and Company take the court. Penn fans throw confetti on the court after the Quakers score their first basket...
...Philmont trek provides a deceptively casual scenario for such transition. Changing history is evident in the area's visitors. Spanish conquistadores and American pioneers passed through. Trekkers carrying side arms have included Kit Carson and, more recently, eagle scout and FBI Director William Sessions, who brought along pistol-packing bodyguards. In recent years women have become active in the formerly all-male backcountry. Two of 501's adult leaders are female, as are 20 of Philmont's 185 rangers who hike for two days with each group to help launch the trip successfully. Environmental pressures are being felt as well...
...brochures apparently made the sale for him. Sometime later, Cardoen was contacted by Iraqi army officers, who were interested in one of the weapons listed in his sales kit: the cluster bomb, a destructive antipersonnel device that scatters tiny bomblets over a wide area. The weapon was ideal for Iraq's relatively unskilled air force, especially after Iran began attacking Iraqi positions with human waves of fanatical young fighters...
...horror of Sky is that at the end, you can see Kit's mind click off. The beauty of the film is that it ultimately locates a married couple's humanity in that horror...