Word: thresholds
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Inspection reports from 1995 and 1996 obtained by TIME reveal that a wide variety of active molds, including Stachybotrys and Penicillium, continued to grow inside the building, alongside bacterial levels that were 200 times as great as OSHA's suggested "contamination threshold." Yet the '96 report, prepared by Crawford Risk Control Services for Southwest's insurance company, rated airborne spore counts inside the building as "normal" compared with those outside. Reviewing this record, Dr. David Straus of Texas Tech University's Health Sciences Center observed, "There's nothing normal about Stachybotrys. It produces a bad toxin. That...
...global warming trend is human-induced and the result of industrial emissions into the air." The real debate is not whether the trend will continue, but how abruptly the temperature will rise. "Scientists are not sure whether world temperatures will rise linearly, "says Thompson, "or whether there's a threshold beyond which temperatures will skyrocket." Such dramatic warming periods, over as little as a decade, have already occurred in the history of the Earth. And if one were to occur again now, the ecological and social disruptions could be incendiary...
Complaints about the statute are familiar: Too many people are potential targets because it covers so many levels of government; the threshold of evidence requiring the Attorney General to call for an independent counsel is far too low; there is little accountability for the lawyers heading the probes until the very end, after they've had vast resources and all the time in the world to stalk their quarry...
...must be kept, the task force argues, only the President, Vice President and Attorney General should be covered by it. Also, the Attorney General should have a role in selecting the independent counsels, and the Justice Department should not be tied to a hair-trigger threshold of evidence in deciding whether a counsel should be appointed. Other critics argue that the law should apply only when the alleged wrongdoing occurred while the official was in office...
...ratings. The segment did help boost the show's numbers--the household rating was up 20% over the season average--during the critical fall sweeps period, which sets local advertising rates. Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes' executive producer, insisted his show wasn't pandering for ratings. "I have a low threshold for discomfort, and I was not made uncomfortable by the moment of death," he says. "I didn't see anybody writhing in agony. I didn't see anything that would make me turn my face away." With euthanasia being so hotly debated, he adds, "the story...