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...companies are feigning surprise, but to many, the lawsuits were long overdue. "The EPA has been dealing with a long list of languished initiatives that were forgotten during the environmentally lax Republican administrations," says TIME environment editor Charles Alexander. The EPA came on very aggressively under Clinton, says Alexander, and Browner has been particularly effective. And it's not just these seven companies who are taking note of the change in the political weather. "Business is paying more attention to environmental laws these days," adds Alexander. "And these lawsuits will definitely bolster the Clinton administration's image as being tough...
...Within walking distance of the Museum of Fine Arts is the eclectic and wildly idiosyncratic Gardner museum, the private collection of Boston's late madcap socialite, Isabella Stuart Gardner. Thanks to lax conservation regulations and import laws, Gardner was able to amass a rather impressive, if jumbled, collection of paintings, decorative arts, and artifacts from around the world. Only here can one find opulent Byzantine windows (taken from actual Venetian palazzos), Boticelli paintings, and second century Roman bathhouse mosaics all melded into a unified whole. Gardner stipulated in her will that the collection remain exactly as it was originally curated...
...country that has 52 nuclear plants and gets one third of its energy from nuclear power can't afford to be lax, but Japan's industry has been plagued by accidents, plant shutdowns, leaks and repeated attempts to cover things up," says TIME Tokyo bureau chief Tim Larimer. "Although the earlier incidents provoked a major shakeup in the administration of Japan's nuclear regulatory agencies, they still seem to escape adequate scrutiny." Obuchi has plenty of incentive to be perceived as getting tough ? he wants a public whose confidence in nuclear safety has been considerably diminished to accept the building...
...student told the Globe said that she and her roommate have been lax about keeping their door locked at night. "We usually feel pretty safe and leave the door unlocked," she said, adding that on Sunday night the dorm held a meeting about the assault...
Still, the mother of a victim, angry that security proposals are too lax, stormed out of a planning meeting. No one is certain how many students may not show up for school opening. Also unknown is the eventual fate of Harris' locker, No. 624, and Klebold's, No. 837. For the time being, they will remain locked and unused...