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...domineering mother in complete denial that anything is wrong with her family; Thomas Derrah mumbles his way convincingly through Margaret's stroke-victim husband Paul's virtually incomprehensible speeches. In contrast to Margaret Brennan's fruitless and overeager attempts to raise a normal family, Boo's parents, Karl and Soot, are the archetypal alcoholic husband and seriously oppressed sex-toy wife. Will Lebow, playing Boo's father, spurts a stream of obscene jokes, sexist comments and alcohol-induced insults, deftly making you want to strangle him; and Paula Plum, playing Boo's mother, giggles her way adeptly into our sympathies...
...ings and queens who ride in large, open carriages with stern livery boys at their side, stone buildings covered in soot, ground beef served spicy and raw in sidewalk cafes, insane drivers who aim directly for tourists. This is Europe--at least as seen from the perspective of much of America, not excluding our cloistered campus. Many Harvard students, who usually swim valiantly upstream against the flow of conventional ideas, allow themselves to float comfortably along on the current of public opinion when it comes to the Old World...
...Cambridge is because they're trying not to trip on those treacherous brick walkways) then you need to get out of Harvard Square for a bit. Even a couple hours of respite will do wonders for your mind and body and give you a chance to clean out the soot from your lungs (I know Cambridge isn't L.A. but those old MBTA buses spew out their fair share of poisonous fumes). By getting out I don't mean taking the subway to the Porter Square shopping mall but going somewhere where there's open land, fresh...
...when the President announced the final version of the regulations last week, it was clear that Browner had prevailed. Over the next 10 years, cities and states will be required to reduce ozone levels one-third and will for the first time have to control microscopic soot particles. Factories and power plants will have to clean up their smokestacks; auto pollution will have to be reduced, either by getting cars off the road or by switching to new technologies, such as electric vehicles; and yes, some tiny percentage of homeowners may even be forced to stop using their fireplaces...
...reviewed 86 separate studies about the association between soot and dust particles and human illness. The agency was already thinking about tightening its rules on ozone, a noxious form of oxygen produced in the burning of fossil fuels. (Another fossil-fuel combustion by-product, carbon dioxide, is a greenhouse gas, responsible in large part for the phenomenon of global warming.) It reviewed an additional 186 studies on ozone, making this, according to Browner, the most extensive scientific review undertaken for any air standard the EPA has proposed...