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...vast majority of rules are still enforced and the list of taboos is long. Each class is given a demerit ceiling for each month; going over the linit earns a cadet several hours of "walking the area," a practice of being forced to dress in formal uniform, mount rifle upon shoulder and walk back and forth in the courtyard. If you skip a class, you automatically "walk...
...drilled the ball into the upper corner of the goal. Hooper's blast narrowed the UMass lead to 2-1, but the Minutemen responded five minutes later with striker Eric Zuckerman's second score of the day. His tally put the game out of reach, as Harvard failed to mount any further serious challenges...
Although he can safely speculate from abroad, Aquino is conscious of the dangers of remaining here too long. As Peter Stanley, dean of Carleton College and a leading expert on the Philippines, says, "If Aquino stays at Harvard, he would either have to mount a successful operation in exile--which has never been done--or in effect rule himself out as a successor to Marcos...
...garbage. Many bear mystifying names: trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, dichloroethylene, dibromochloromethane, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). These, and many more, are suspected of contributing to the rising incidence of cancer in the U.S. But experts in the field are quick to admit the difficulty of proving the harm caused by chemical wastes. Says Mount Sinai's Selikoff: "When it comes to chemicals and illness, it's hard to prove cause and effect, though we certainly have our suspicions...
...particles and mesothelioma (cancer of the lining of the chest or abdomen). But often the results of such epidemiological studies are not entirely convincing. The problem: scientists must trace effect back to probable cause ratherthan identifying cause and looking for effects. Says Dr. Irving Selikoff, of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Medical Center, who established the asbestos-cancer connection: "You're always working backward in this field...