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...alarm first sounded back in 1974, when Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina of the University of California at Irvine warned about the destructive impact that CFCs could have on the atmosphere. Before banning these important industrial chemicals, however, scientists had to confirm that CFCs did in fact attack ozone and that society produced enough of the chemicals to create a ! problem. Within a few years, most scientists accepted that CFCs were a real threat, though uncertainties remained. In 1978 the U.S. banned the use of CFCs in aerosol sprays and began pushing for international controls...
...association attempts to address the question of science's future at a time when "science and its role in both national and global affairs are being questioned and debated with fervor," according to AAAS President F. Sherwood Rowland...
Senior Anne Sherwood, who scored three goals last Saturday and is the top playmaker in Princeton history, leads a Wiley offensive unit, which includes senior Gillian Thompson (fifth in all-time scoring for the Tigers) and sophomore Kim Simons (three goals against Temple...
...face coarseness. Candice Bergen, a two-time Emmy winner (in years when the Golden Girls were apparently snoozing), has anything but a light comic touch. Listening to her labored, overemphatic line readings is like watching someone slog through a swamp in combat boots. Faith Ford, as dippy anchorwoman Corky Sherwood-Forrest (a character married off just to create a funny name!), shrieks her way through scenes as if she were trying to be heard above a hurricane. Grant Shaud, as frenetic executive producer Miles Silverberg, needs sedation more than his character does...
Last year Kevin Costner's Robin Hood won the release race against a competing movie about the Sherwood Forest hero, which was then downgraded to TV. Now two movies about Christopher Columbus are racing to the finish line, and a pair featuring Buddha are in the works. Seems like deja vu all over the place...