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...Aaron Spelling (The Love Boat, Dynasty) that make them unmistakably American artifacts? To a good part of the rest of the world, the U.S. is nothing but its global pop gush. Not the Bill of Rights, not Mary Cassatt, not George Balanchine but Madonna, The A-Team and Sidney Sheldon. The respectable pieties are correct: sure, America is the land of freedom and the land of opportunity. But it is perhaps more lovably the land of great tap dancing and terrific special effects, the land of oomph...
...Council Tuesday passed a motion introduced by Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci which asked the Science Advisory Committee, headed by Tufts Professor Sheldon Krimsky, to study further the reactor's safety. Krimsky could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Though air currents could bring some radioactivity to North America, U.S. Government sources expressed little worry. "We don't expect any significant health effects in the United States," said Sheldon Meyers, acting director of the Environmental Protection Agency's office of radiation programs. Still, the U.S. is taking no chances. The EPA increased its measurement of airborne particulates from twice a week to daily in order to spot fallout quickly...
Unused since the fall of 1983 because of an overabundance of building space, Sheldon Hall had been financially burdensome to the college, costing an estimated $75,000 annually in heating bills...
However, William King, a developer and lifetime Oswego resident who lives opposite Sheldon Hall, believes there are better uses for the building, such as apartments for older or married students. "I don't believe the administration served the best interests of the college or the community," he said...