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...even some of those celebrating the warmth expressed concerns about the environmental origins of the freakish weather. "Something's not right," said Dana Embrose, an employee of Emack & Bolio's Ice Cream. "It's the ozone layer or something...I don't know...
...voting booth. "They voted no on everything," laments Lynn Sadler, campaign director for Forests Forever. Big Green was a ballot buster all by itself, a 16,000-word laundry list of aims, including a ban on cancer-causing pesticides, a phase-out of chemicals that deplete the ozone layer and creation of an oil-spill cleanup fund...
...Proposes to earmark 60 percent of the U.S. Department of Education budget directly back to local schools with "no strings attached," saying "these funds will no longer pass through bureaucratic layer after layer until some small portion finally reaches the classroom." The plan would give schools money based on demographics--$411 per student--rather than merit or need...
...almost two years Markovitz couldn't bring himself to clean the profanities from his garage. The rain washed away a top layer of cream, but a legible residue was left behind. "I could have painted it 100 times," he says, staring at a fading swastika. "How could four kids from the neighborhood, whose parents are fairly prominent, do this? I decided I would try to bring some cure to it. Then I'd repaint...
Venus is the closest planet to Earth, and yet it retains an aura of mystery. The thick layer of clouds hiding its surface has long frustrated efforts to take a close look at the Venusian landscape...