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...Andrews, but that if he failed he would dash back to the States and defend his title in the American tournament. "They said I couldn?t do it, that it was fine-able behavior, that I had to commit to the B.C. Open. I said, ?Hey, guys, you ought to think this over. We?re supposed to be about golf and its traditions here.? " Ultimately, the Tour, which is at least as much about money as it is about golf and its traditions, capitulated -perhaps realizing that to interfere in what was obviously a noble, somewhat Quixotic effort would mean...
...environmental problem that was already coming to light 15 years ago ought, many argue, to have been addressed by now. Nine other nations, including Sweden, Germany, Vietnam and Indonesia, have banned or restricted CCA use, but federal and state regulators in the U.S. have taken a far more lax approach. In 1987, California passed a law requiring CCA-treated structures to be coated with paint or sealant every two years. The EPA set guidelines of its own, establishing a program under which woodmakers would provide a warning sheet with each package of treated lumber shipped to retailers. But critics charge...
...billion-a-year wood-treatment industry. The industry counters that it has been left alone because it deserves to be--and the case it makes has some merit. If CCA were as deadly as some say, factory workers who make the stuff and carpenters who work with it ought to be falling ill in droves. Yet no one reports a measurable increase in disease among these groups. "Certainly, if there were a danger, it would show up," says Mel Pine, spokesman for the American Wood Preservers' Institute...
DIED. MORTIMER ADLER, 98, philosopher, educational reformer and author who helped create the Great Books program of learning; in San Mateo, Calif. Guided by the writings of his personal hero, Aristotle, Adler spent most of his life championing his belief in universal values, insisting that all students ought to receive a liberal-arts education with an understanding of that philosophy. He helped revise the core curriculum at the University of Chicago accordingly, and conceived the Great Books program, which is based on 443 classics reprinted in a 54-volume set by Encyclopaedia Britannica. His works include How to Read...
...many of us have done ourselves? These girls are normal teenage college students. They aren't President of the U.S.; they didn't choose to dedicate themselves to a life of politics and public scrutiny. The members of the press waiting for the girls to step out of line ought to remember that. CATHERINE O'DELL Angier...