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SECURITY for the Science Center, which is open to the public 24 hours a day, is all too lax. A guard is usually sitting at the first floor elevator after 5 p.m. But a student told me that even the night following Wednesday's rape, the guard did not even ask for identification. In fact, the guard did not even bother to look up from his book, and only muttered, "Sign in," according to the student. The student could have easily penned any name into the log. And during the evenings, the doors to the stairs are often left unlocked...
...illusions. On the green carpet he is a picture of patience, a subject not taught him by Vince Lombardi but one he must practice now. Scrimmage over, he gathers sweating hopefuls about him -- a gentle rebuke for the defense, praise for the runners and passers. "Don't ever be lax," he cautions. "Someone can always rise up and beat you. Anything can happen out there on Saturdays -- anything...
...addition to presenting Zachary's two-part investigation of lax standards at adolescent psychiatric hospitals, the half-hour show, which premiered earlier this month on the Public Broadcasting network, has taken viewers inside a bogus abortion clinic run by antiabortion activists, shown how massive foreign debt has crippled Zambia's economy, and profiled an eleven- year-old chess prodigy. This week's show features a report from the campaign trail. If she were raped by her father, Suki Cheong, 11, asked Republican vice-presidential candidate Dan Quayle, should she be permitted to have an abortion? Quayle's answer...
Whether left unsupervised by lax Government officials or, worse yet, ordered by them to stifle their own concerns, the private contractors who ran the major U.S. weapons plants released huge quantities of radioactive particles into the air and dumped tons of potentially cancer-inducing refuse into flowing creeks and leaking pits, contaminating underground water supplies in a seepage that cannot be stopped. No one knows how many people may have been needlessly afflicted with such ailments as cancer, birth deformities and thyroid deficiencies -- and no one in relevant offices seemed to care. Why? Because a legalistic, bureaucratic shuffle left...
...days earlier, Building 771 at the Government's Rocky Flats plutonium-processing plant in Colorado became the second weapons facility to be shut down in less than two months, after three people were exposed to radioactive material. Simultaneously, a Government report charged DOE-run weapons-research labs with lax security during visits by foreign experts, including some from Soviet bloc countries...