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...water recedes, officials speculate that the roiling currents of the swollen San Jacinto had possibly scoured away the earth around two massive pipelines buried 3 ft. beneath the riverbed. The exposed lines, which carry nearly one-sixth of U.S. daily gasoline supplies, were then either rammed by a floating object or simply collapsed. In any case, about 200,000 bbl. of gasoline and diesel spewed into the water, floated to the surface and at 8:30 a.m. ignited. Flames and smoke shot more than 100 ft. into the air as the inferno raced downstream at speeds of 80 m.p.h., gobbling...
John simply declares to his psychiatrist, "I didn't deserve her. I didn't get her. Now she's gone." He has difficulty articulating just why his love object, Lisa, should want him, but, like most of us, he is convinced, as though by a rare knowledge of the workings of destiny, that he is deserving...
Agassiz Professor of Zoology Richard C. Lewontin '50-'51 and Professor of Biology Daniel L. Hartl object to the forensic use of DNA finger-printing, or profiling. They contend that the accuracy claimed by current statistical techniques is overstated...
...hard not to notice that individuals have inherently unequal mental capacities. Each of us has, no doubt, encountered the full spectrum: the impossibly obtuse, the merely incompetent, the average Joe, the smart fella and the inconceivably brilliant. People object when accused of stupidity; but, few question the basic thesis that some got it and others...
Chiefly, I object (far more strenuously than does The Crimson) to Roiphe's view that we "infantilize" women when we say that those who have been raped have every right to be angry about it and to want justice...