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Representatives from the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Ga., have been called in to test the water at the stadium. Penn officials are still baffled about the origin of the contamination...
...onto ice crystals during the polar winter; then, as spring nears in early September, the chlorine is warmed by the sun and converted into a reactive form that can destroy ozone. The presence of fluorine in the atmosphere supports the view that these chlorine compounds are of man-made origin. "There isn't any fluorine in the upper atmosphere from any natural source," says Farmer. This suggests that the source of the accompanying chlorine is chlorofluorocarbons...
...view of Hawaii Governor John Waihee, "It's not the origin of an investment dollar that makes it good or bad, but how it is invested." Takeovers that encourage U.S. competitiveness and efficiency and refurbish aging plants and equipment, in other words, are usually good, whoever spends the money. Likewise, the money that foreign companies invest in America is usually more important than the ultimate destination of any future profits. "To a worker in Chicago, does it make any difference whether the dividends go to New York or Tokyo? No," says Economist Edward Bernstein, a guest scholar at the Brookings...
Tehran responded by unleashing its fleet of small speedboats armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenade launchers against neutral oil tankers and freighters. The speedboats, with crews of four to eight men and often no markings indicating country of origin, are Iran's chief weapon in the gulf. The boats made hit-and-run attacks against Greek, Cypriot, Italian, Spanish, South Korean and Japanese vessels. On Friday, Iran for the first time launched one of its Chinese-made Silkworm missiles from occupied Iraqi territory on the Fao peninsula. The missile plunged harmlessly into the water off a Kuwaiti beach...
Arcadia did not accept the decision quietly. After a week of demonstrations and death threats, the boys' home was destroyed late Friday night by a fire of suspicious origin while the family was away. After that, Louise Ray said her family would leave the county. Said she: "I never thought it would go this...