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...Thayer residents said they did not think to call the police. "I didn't want to mess with it," said Hunt...
Much of the miseducation mess springs from the stretching of entrance standards. Tulane President Eamon Kelly, who shut down the basketball program last spring after five players were implicated in a point-shaving scheme for money, conceded last week that his school still has "multiple criteria for admissions," although he is working hard to change them. Nonathletes aspiring to enter Tulane for a B.A. or an engineering degree need Scholastic Aptitude Test scores of 1,135 and 1,215 respectively (out of a possible range from 400 to a perfect 1,600). A talented athlete, however, may slide in with...
Dartmouth's quarterback situation is a mess, as first-year starter and mediocre signalcaller Brian Stretch was injured last week. He will be replaced by junior David Gabianelli, who is still an unproven entity despite a decent outing last week...
...great toxic-waste mess oozed its way into the nation's consciousness, and its conscience, a little more than five years ago. "An environmental emergency," declared the Surgeon General in 1980. "A ticking time bomb primed to go off," warned the Environmental Protection Agency. The reaction was typically all-American: Congress created a grand-sounding "Superfund," a $1.6 billion, five-year crash program designed to clean up thousands of leaking dumps that were threatening to contaminate much of the nation's underground water supplies...
...only a vast effort by the industries that profit from the chemicals can get the waste mess under control. That would undoubtedly mean added costs passed on to the consumer, but the basic fact is that the effort must be made. Wondrous chemical potions have been a great aid to mankind, easing pain, alleviating disease, prolonging life, spurring food production and serving as the catalyst for countless useful products. But once discarded, many of these concoctions, or their by-products, turn killer, and the U.S. has no choice but to curb their lethal ways...