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...should also be noted that new, stricter regulations of research at Harvard were released just 24 hours before the visit by the city commission investigating allegations of animal abuse in the city. Thus even the expectation of greater public scrutiny seems to result in important reforms...
...resulting furor, other abuses came to light: a midshipman had been bound and taped to a chair by classmates who thought he had lied; another had been forced to eat and drink until he vomited. Last week Rear Admiral Virgil Hill, the academy superintendent, announced stricter punishments, including dismissal, for physical "horseplay" involving unwilling participants...
Many Americans say they would welcome stricter security while flying. In a poll last week for TIME/CNN by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, between 75% and 80% of 500 adults questioned said they would be willing to arrive earlier for flights, undergo questioning, have their luggage searched and pass through more sensitive detectors. Also, 69% said they would be more likely to fly on an airline with such procedures...
...pain quickly became apparent at gas stations, where cars often waited 60 and 70 in line to buy their last 2 1/2 gal. before the stricter rationing rules took effect. Otherwise, there was a strange sense of unreality at the front line of Moscow's economic war. Vilnius residents, many of them following the parliamentary debate over transistor radios, took advantage of a brilliant spring day to stroll Gediminas Boulevard and look into shopwindows that even in the worst of times have been better supplied than Moscow's. There were no signs of hoarding or panic buying. Said a youthful...
...primarily on developing a body of national environmental laws. Earth Day 1990 is driven from below by a wide assortment of Americans -- from housewives to chemical-plant workers and fishermen -- whose impatience with their fouled neighborhoods has forced cities and states to become legislative trendsetters and pass laws far stricter than the Federal Government's. "The environmental movement of the '60s was relatively elite and focused on national lawmaking," says former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt. "Today the power is being regenerated through the grass roots. Just as the civil rights movement began at the neighborhood lunch counter, this new environmental...