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...Jerry Specht, EVANSTON...
...benefit the barge companies, not the farmers. And environmentalists are concerned that bigger locks will bring more barges, killing more fish with their propellers and filling more backwaters with silt. "It's amazing how clear the river water is in the winter when barge season is over," says Dan Specht, who grows 800 acres of soybeans in McGregor, Iowa, four miles from the river. "The muddy water hurts plants by putting silt on their leaves, and it hurts fish with silt on their eggs...
...says Dennis Hart, director of the county's social welfare department. "We had to find a way to do some screening of the people we were getting." The throwback has already spurred a lawsuit and a blast of criticism from Bannon Street residents, lawyers and sociologists. Says Harry Specht, dean of the School of Social Welfare at the University of California at Berkeley: "It's medieval. We gave up the notion of the poorhouse before the Depression." Warehousing the poor, he says, "stigmatizes them, creating a subculture of people who are considered disreputable - bums...
...Specht (Princeton) 49.01 800-yd. freestyle relay...
...Specht (Princeton...