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...cause as many as four lung cancer deaths over the plant's 40-year operating life, that's not an "unreasonable" risk. In fact, according to hearing officer Ellyn R. Weiss, a Washington, D.C., environmental lawyer who has handled the MATEP case since 1977, living under the plant's stack is no more dangerous than smoking 1.4 cigarettes a year for 20 years. The DEQE now has to review Weiss's report and comments from all parties, and is expected to make a final decision by the end of the month...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: The MATEP Shuffle | 11/17/1984 | See Source »

...greater stress on learning fundamentals. More are sending their children to the preschool programs that launch four-year-olds armed with the alphabet. Schools are responding by fortifying the play-oriented kindergarten curriculum with weighty matters like arithmetic and reading. "Parents now want their children to bring home a stack of papers," says Marilyn Arwood, principal of Waynewood Elementary School in Fairfax County, Va. "They want hard proof that the child has learned something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Getting Off to a Quick Start | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

...With a stack of about 40 copies of this month's Penthouse--featuring her in a dozen-page spread--by her side, Jeanette Starion, a 20-year-old model and aspiring actress from Copenhagen, autographed the magazine for anyone...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Penthouse Pet Visits Harvard Square | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

...Compact shelving, which involves installing new hardware. Stacks are put on rollers with just enough maneuvering room to permit access to one-stack at a time. The Law School's 1.4 million volume Langdell Library has been able to install compact, shelving successfully and came the burden there, as has the 160,000 volume Tozzer Library in the Peabody Museum...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Traffic in the Stacks | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...wonderful thing about the place is that it has source material on so many topics and historical figures," says Porter University Professor W. Jackson Bate '39, who says he has been using Widener since he was a 17-year-old stack attendant and knows the nine-story building "blindfolded...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Traffic in the Stacks | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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