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...glad you came because we need to have role models," Wilkins told the alumni in the audience. "Over the weekend we'll be like sponges on you, trying to seep knowledge...
EVERY FEW YEARS or so, images of the horrible story of modern Cambodia seep into Western conciousness, only to give way after a while to the ongoing concerns of the day. But for the people of Cambodia, the nightmare is never-ending. First there was the murderous U.S. "sideshow" to the Vietnam War that took the form of B-52 raids on innocent civilians in the early 1970s. When the U.S. left Indochina in 1975, the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot took over and instituted a bloodbath in the name of one of the most insane ideologies to come...
...southeastern Washington is owned by the Federal Government. Its disadvantage, in the view of environmentalists, is that it is in the Columbia Basin. The Energy Department proposes carving a cavern in the basalt rock some 3,000 ft. below the surface, and contends that the radioactivity could never seep into underground water sources or the river. Many job-conscious residents of the three nearby cities of Kennewick, Richland and Pasco were happy that their area remained under consideration. "We're better educated about nuclear energy here," said Dorothy Schoeppach, manager of the Pasco Chamber of Commerce...
Despite the hospital's efforts to protect the identity of the parents, information about the mother, Teresa, 23, began to seep out last week. Baby Fae's unmarried parents are an impoverished couple who moved from Kansas to Barstow, Calif, 90 miles northeast of Los Angeles, about two years ago. According to an NBC report, both parents had brushes with the law in their home state: the mother for passing bad checks, the father for disorderly conduct. Though the couple had lived together for five years and had a 2½-year-old son, the father ? deserted Teresa a week...
...stuff does not have to be entirely destroyed to be threatening. Anderson says if the amount of atmospheric ozone drops by as little as 10 percent, enough ultra-violet radiation could probably seep through to be "extremely serious," and if it dropped by 50 percent, it would prove devastating...