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...Chicago architect Nestor Popowych, president of a wireless-development group, is that there is a better way. After all, a tower is just a post for antennas, and any tall structure--a water tower, a billboard, a stanchion in a football stadium--can serve the purpose. Companies can further lessen the unsightliness by clustering their antennas at a common site. When a tower must be built, it can often be camouflaged so that it looks like a silo on a barn, a bell tower on a church, even a palm or pine tree. In fact, insists Lowell McAdam, PrimeCo...
...hope that the students of the College recognize this action for what it is, and I hope that the Ad Board, or the Faculty, will see fit to lessen the punishment handed down to Kirtley, while halting their ill-conceived attempt to limit the freedom of the press. --Thomas J. Kelleher...
...side note, the College's involvement with the graduate boards makes us nervous. Although Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III seems to involve himself in these discussions in order to lessen the impact of the final clubs, we worry that his high profile in the negotiations lends an air of College support to the clubs themselves...
Chiu says the concentration gave him more perspective on the negative impact people have on the environment and what legal, political and scientific actions can be taken to lessen that impact...
...severe burn patients, the first priority of treatment is to restore the damaged skin that is the body's first line of defense against microbes. To lessen the need for taking extensive skin grafts from other areas of a burn patient's already weakened body, several biotechnology companies have developed grafts made from collagen, a fibrous protein that is a natural component of skin and other tissues. The laboratory-grown collagen serves as a permanent scaffolding, above, in areas in which both the upper epidermis and deeper dermal layers of skin have been burned. Once grafted, new skin cells...