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...park while thousand of cars circle above their head? No new housing can be built in the shadow of a colossal series of ramps and roads pooring soot and noise down on the land below. As Scheme Z opponent Gladys P. Gifford says, "You can't mitigate a monster...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: A Cambridge Monstrosity | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

What would proponents of "oppose the war, support the troops" say, for example, in the case of a Nazi SS soldier ordered to serve as a guard at Auschwitz during World War II? Is he a baby-killing monster like the Vietnam veteran, morally accountable for his actions? Or is he a "hero" like the soldier of Desert Storm, deserving "support" and "honor" because he had "no choice but to follow orders...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Not 'Just Following Orders' | 2/5/1991 | See Source »

...Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology Stephen Williams, who teaches Anthropology 139, "Fantastic Archaeology: Where the Truth Lies," promises to make his students more skeptical. Williams says he will teach students how to tell a hoax from genuine findings during their studies of Big Foot and the Loch Ness Monster...

Author: By Seth S. Harkness, | Title: Offbeat Classes Useful In Practice | 1/30/1991 | See Source »

...your can't mitigate a monster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 1/25/1991 | See Source »

...movie, a marauding mollusk would probably be played by a giant clam. But the real-life monster swimming amuck in the Great Lakes is a tiny creature the size of a fingernail. With its jaunty brown stripes, a solitary zebra mussel looks cute, not threatening. The trouble is that the animal is anything but a loner, and its tendency to form colonies of thousands, even millions, makes it threatening indeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invasion of The Zebra Mussels | 1/21/1991 | See Source »

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