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Conducted with the sponsorship of several Government agencies, the yearlong NRC study agreed that fluorocarbons do, as suspected, percolate upward into the stratosphere, where their chlorine atoms react with and thus destroy ozone molecules. According to the NRC report, if the fluorocarbon release continues at the 1973 rate, it could ultimately deplete the three-mile-thick ozone layer by as much as 7%. Public health authorities predict that the subsequent increase in the amount of ultraviolet light reaching the earth would raise by about 200 the number of Americans afflicted annually by malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer that...
Edward T. Wilcox, a member of a committee Horner chairs and a resident of UHall, says about Horner: "It's hard to define her, hard for her to emerge or for anyone to react to her individually because of the unique complexity of the role she holds. The real profile is of the president non-president, dean non-dean...
Whatever the impact in votes, the debate format provides an instantaneous comparison of how two candidates react under the intense pressure of circumstances they cannot control or precisely anticipate. The face-to-face meeting also ensures that millions of voters-who normally would listen at length only to the candidate most likely to please them-find themselves irresistibly tuned into the other candidate as well...
McCabe and Mrs. Miller. You may react like Warren Beatty, who was pissed at Altman for smothering all his lines with wilderness noise and human babble. Or the scenery may get to you--fog and snow turning into literal shrouds, raw timber buildings sitting squalid like open wounds in the woods. It's a movie that jello-quivers your mind--the death scenes just kinda fester up there afterwards, shake, rattle, and roll. Choose your poison...
...Coolness. The capacity to recover from a gaffe, react calmly to a reverse, adjust to the unexpected...