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Kuhn describes a section field trip to the General Electric plant in Lynn, Mass. “When we got there the executive who greeted us and gave us the tour said, ‘You guys really don’t look like HBS students.’” Then, indicating Bush, Kuhn recalls the manager saying, “That guy looks like someone who just came off the third shift.” However, the clothes belied a man who took many opportunities to lead his peers...
Some environmental groups are using the permit renegotiation process to criticize what they see as existing environmental abuse by the power plant...
Julia Bovey, a spokeswoman for the Conservation Law Foundation, said she was concerned that under the new permit, the plant might send “excess amounts of super-hot water” into the Charles. Historically, the plant has not taken full advantage of the capacity set forth by the permit, Bovey said...
Bovey said that the draft permit “is not different from the old permit,” but its effects could be more harmful if the plant chooses to utilize its full capacity...
...immediate cause of the disastrous shortage—reportedly the safety failures at an English plant of the Chiron Corporation—are just a symptom of a larger problem that has been allowed to fester for years. Over the last decade, the number of suppliers of the flu vaccine in the U.S. has dwindled to two. Yet outrageous as this dangerous trend is, long term preventative solutions should not be the present focus; there is no use crying over spoiled milk, or, more appropriately, spoiled vaccine...