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...received widespread publicity but who remain, in many cases, undaunted. In Vermont the distinguished essayist Edward Hoagland was abruptly dismissed as a part-time lecturer at Bennington College. The reason? Student activists convinced school authorities that an article Hoagland had written for Esquire, in which he argued that the spread of AIDS was owing partly to a "gale of often icy promiscuity," was homophobic and therefore deserved severe punishment. To be sure, Hoagland got his teaching job at Bennington back after an investigation showed that the college's literature department had "deviated from proper recruitment procedures" in giving...
...stark contrast to the havoc that B.C.C.I. spread from London to Lima was the studied calm at the White House last week. Senior officials described the scandal as more an annoyance than a real concern. Said Press Secretary Marlin Fitzwater: "The Justice Department has been looking into it for some time, and we're satisfied with the way they're handling it." He added, however, "It's clear that the Democrats are going to try to make some political hay out of it. Unfortunately, it looks like everything is going to be political between now and next November...
...time of the allied aerial attacks last winter, pilots avoided targeting sites where biological weapons were believed to be stored, or hitting them with incendiary bombs. According to Air Force Lieut. General Charles Horner, who ran the allied air campaign, a strike by a conventional bomb could have spread a deadly agent across the countryside, killing millions. As a result, Iraq's biological stocks are largely intact, and a U.S. attack poses the same risks that it did during the war. Unless Saddam discloses the whereabouts of his entire arsenal, Iraq will retain at least some of its biological weapons...
...Snow contends that such protective gear should be as commonplace for children as bicycle helmets and infant car seats. His institute and other organizations are launching programs to educate children about hazards to hearing. And musicians who have suffered hearing loss, including Pete Townshend of the Who, are helping spread the message about the price of high-decibel rock. "We teach kids to keep their hands off the hot stove," says Jeff Baxter of the Doobie Brothers. "Let's do the same with their hearing...
After several years of modest sales, limited almost exclusively to the Western mountain states, the sports-sandal fad has spread to both coasts. The most popular line is known as Teva, made by Deckers Corp. of Santa Barbara, Calif.; they come in 30 different styles and retail for anywhere from $35 to $80. Peter Link, Deckers' vice president for marketing and sales, predicts that revenues from the sandal will double this year to $12 million and double again next year. Says Link: "We want to be the airy alternative to athletic shoes." Clearly, a goal worth striding...