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Damages for an Oil Spill...
...federal jury in Anchorage, Alaska, ordered the Exxon Corp. to pay a whopping $5 billion in punitive damages to commercial fishermen, property owners and Alaska natives harmed in the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Exxon said it would appeal...
...flying around the country," says Colborn. As the researchers compared notes, the evidence began to mount. During the mid-1980s, Colborn learned, mortality rates for alligator eggs in Lake Apopka, Florida, soared to 96%, in contrast to 57% in most Florida lakes. The almost certain cause: a 1980 chemical spill that included DDT. In 1993 researchers found that terns in PCB-contaminated Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, had reproductive-tract abnormalities including the presence of ovarian cells in male birds. Earlier studies had found similar problems with birds in California and the upper Midwest...
...first time in two years, though, the renovation work will not spill over into the fall, and first-year occupants will not be displaced. Even Canaday, which officials said in June might still need work as first-years were moving in, was completed on time, according to project manager Alana M. Knuff...
...this week will certainly be a "revery of long days and nights." From placement tests to shopping for futons, the next seven or so days of your life will spill over with activities and general stimuli. It will be one of the few times when groups of Harvard students simply sit around talking because of arbitrary rooming assignments made by the HDO. Watch the improbable friendships form in the vacuum of a larger social structure. And then watch some of them dissolve when the participants and classmates more suitable to their coeds...