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...hunting ban has done nothing to eliminate other human activities that also threaten the animals. Commercial fisheries deplete the whales' feeding grounds and disrupt their breeding areas and nurseries. Scientists suspect that PCBs, pesticides and other toxic chemicals leak into rivers and out to sea, weaken whales' immune systems and drive down their birthrates. Observes Scott Kraus, a marine biologist with the New England Aquarium: "The public gets hung up on whaling, but what's really worse is what we flush down the toilet...
...face it. Harvard has some sort of agenda. But there is nothing really wrong with that. It's unrealistic to pretend that the administration has no political beliefs. It is likewise unrealistic to believe that its opinions will never leak through to its policy. The debate on homosexuality is primarily one of morality. While most conservatives would like to believe that they have a monopoly on this precious commodity, the Administration believes that tolerance is a moral virtue. And it is the prerogative and the right of this private institution to teach whatever moral lesson it wants...
Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely said that the pool, which had been open since 1888 until it was closed three years ago, had started to leak so badly that it was weakening the foundation of the building...
Since Thomas lacked the substantive stands on issues that should be prerequisites for the Supreme Court, an anonymous source felt compelled to leak reports of Thomas' possible sexual harassment of Anita Hill and other deviant behavior...
...would just as soon have watched Salameh for a while in the hope that he would lead them to other suspects. But news was starting to leak; by Wednesday night the FBI knew that New York Newsday was about to report that a rented van stolen in New Jersey was involved in the blast. James Fox, head of / the New York City FBI office, who coordinated much of the investigation, says his office considered asking Newsday to hold the story but decided not to because other papers and radio and TV stations had pieces of the story and the agency...