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...BELIEVE THE SENATE IS TRYING TO regulate the transmission of sexual material on the Internet [Technology, April 3]. Online sex is the safest form of sex yet, and now busybodies want to waste time and money abolishing it. Why not turn their efforts to combatting threatening sexual acts such as rape, molestation and child pornography? And so far as the poor, innocent children's being exposed, it is too late to protect them. All they have to do to see pornography is turn on the TV or go to a movie. The old guys in the Senate are scared...
...change in a year in which a multitude of student thefts came to light. Paul K. Kim '96 and Vanessa V. Gil '97 returned $3,000 they found in the street to its owner, Tommy's House of Pizza. To take the money would have been the easiest and safest from of theft imaginable, a great reward for little effort, virtually untraceable...
They are scattered throughout Harvard. Somepeople think that if a bomb hits, the safest placewould be Mather House. That assumption is not thatfar off. Civil defense experts regarded Harvard asthe key to Cambridge's salvation. The HarvardCorporation formed a Civil Defense StudyCommittee, and the group concluded that Harvard'sextensive network of tunnels and basements couldprovide 25,000 people with shelter from nuclearfallout. So if you said go to Mather when the bombhits, you were close. You'd be better off,however, in the Adams House tunnels...
...protection is better than no protection against fallout. An underground shelter covered with at least 3 feet of earth and properly ventilated is the safest. An ordinary basement, with the windows and entryways sandbagged, will provide some protection. If nothing better is available, a frame house will reduce the danger, especially if you stay on the lowest floor near the center...
...retiree Bob Chadwick. "I won't come downtown much anymore," he says, grabbing an application for his .44-cal. Magnum. "It's a jungle, and it's spreading. I don't want to become a victim." A national survey recently rated Chadwick's "jungle," Colorado Springs, America's 13th safest city...