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...regulations allowing utilities and refineries to modernize their oldest and dirtiest facilities, in some cases without adding new pollution controls (a federal appeals court last month upheld the revised regulations). GE is currently challenging enforcement provisions of the Superfund law, also via Tribe. The company bears at least partial responsibility for 87 Superfund sites around the country--a stretch of the Hudson River being the most famous--a legacy of its industrial past. If GE wins its case, the Superfund law would be gutted, contends Kit Kennedy, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council. GE, she says, would have...
...travel books came with warnings, the one for Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide would read, "Caution: may inspire actual voyage." But then, this lavishly produced guide couldn't help do otherwise?especially if you're partial to adventure. By the time you've read the account in Chapter 6 of Alexander the Great's legacy in Herat, you'll be drawing up an itinerary. And once you finish the chapter on Bamiyan and its ancient Buddhist kingdoms, you may well be on the phone to your travel agent. All of this is testimony to the skill of authors Bijan Omrani...
Golon's biggest challenge, and only partial disappointment, was former Miami Dolphin Mercury Morris of Super Bowl VIII, now serving a 15-to-20-year prison sentence on drug charges in Florida. "To get approval for a picture session in the Dade County correctional institution, I had to phone the head of the Florida state department of corrections, the penitentiary superintendent and Morris' lawyer, many of them several times," she says. "Four hours before the shoot they decided we could take the pictures, but Morris couldn't wear the jersey." Though the prison permitted Photographer Red Morgan to cart...
...other Bears think he handles himself like a defensive player, a high compliment in Chicago, for this is eternally a defensive team. Ditka's shutout department is run independently by a straight-talking old ramrod named Buddy Ryan, an Oklahoman partial to cowboy boots and farm hats that say HORIZON SEEDS. In an era when most coaches feel obliged to soothe the players' psyches, Ryan is a link to the past. He took one wide look at "the Refrigerator" last summer and declared the Clemson first rounder to be "a wasted draft choice." But this was not an unusual introduction...
...tiny pores than traditional soft lenses, allowing an increased supply of oxygen and water to reach and nourish the cornea. But the myriad pores encourage the buildup of deposits on the lenses, creating a perfect breeding ground for bacteria. The resulting infection spreads to the cornea and can cause partial or complete blindness in just 24 hours. Even if the problem is caught and treated early, Kenyon says, a scar often remains, interfering with vision...