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...radical. Encouraged by J. Carter Brown, the soon-to-retire director of the National Gallery in Washington, Glanton proposed a worldwide tour of paintings from the collection, accompanied by all the usual backup -- reproductions, books, posters, souvenirs. In July 1992 the Barnes board won court permission to mount such a tour, just once, after which the paintings were never to leave Merion again. This, says Brown, was "a very closely reasoned argument by a judge who felt it was necessary in order to make possible the other provisions of the will. This tour is going to go a long...
...seven thunders are to be revealed . . . Do you want me to laugh at your pending torments? Do you want Me to pull the heavens back and show you My anger?! . . . Fear Me, for I have you in My snare . . . I forewarn you, the Lake Waco area of Old Mount Carmel will be terribly shaken. The waters of the lake will be emptied through the broken...
THOUGH BANNED IN THE U.S. IN 1972, DDT IS NOT forgotten. Soluble in fat, the insecticide leaves trace amounts that can linger for decades in human tissue. Now a study published by the National Cancer Institute suggests that these residual effects may be deadly. Researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and New York University have found that the greater the exposure to DDT the higher the risk of breast cancer for women...
...flawed account notwithstanding, evidence has continued to mount linking General Motors pickup trucks to fiery crashes. Federal regulators were reluctant to recall the 5 million vehicles still on the road, but new tests conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finally persuaded them to act. The pickups' fuel tanks, says William Boehly, NHTSA's top enforcement official, "have a risk of fire in fatal side-impact crashes that is 2.4 times greater than that of Ford trucks. General Motors should therefore initiate a recall." About 300 people have died in crashes involving GM trucks. The callback, which could cost...
...Shop stewards are elected to represent the employees and they speak for them, so hopefully their voices are heard without fear of retaliation," said Hennessey who recently left Harvard to become director of food services at Mount Holyoke College...