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...most ferocious critics call it Harvard's half-billion dollar mistake, Milder types ask whether Harvard should be in the energy business. Some argue it is necessary, sensible and will pay for itself in time...
...threat began in the 1930s, when the aggressive red fire ants came to Mobile, Alabama, perhaps on shiploads of lumber imported from the insects' home territory in South America (the milder-mannered black fire ant had arrived, also from the Southern Hemisphere, in 1918). In the 1950s and early '60s concerned government officials tried to eradicate the insects with such powerful chemicals as heptachlor and mirex. The program was later dubbed "the Vietnam of entomology" for both its destructiveness and its futility. The poisons killed not only their targets but also most other wildlife in the treated areas...
...unambiguous vote of 100 to 0, the Senate turned down a radical House measure that would have barred most new federal regulations for the rest of the year. Instead, the Senate adopted a milder proposal that would allow Congress to review major rules and block those it dislikes. How the two chambers will resolve their very considerable differences remains unclear...
...earned him more combat decorations than any other soldier in American history, including the Medal of Honor and seven Purple Hearts for wounds received in combat, like the bullet that tore out a vocal cord and left him raspy-voiced to the end of his days. He led a milder civilian life as a recreation director...
...then the secular religion of wholesomeness and cheer, its resistance to charm, its out-of-focus foregrounds and deranged angles -- above all, its strange new mood of cool melancholy -- were met with shock at the time. The reception it got from critics -- "warped" and "joyless" were two of the milder descriptions -- is photography's own version of the opening- night riot that greeted Stravinsky's Rite of Spring...