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...Colo., has leaked into the town's Great Western Reservoir. Federal officials insist that the plutonium, one of the most lethal of all nuclear products, is harmless as long as it stays on the bottom of the 40-acre reservoir. But residents of Broomfield-aware that even the tiniest amounts of plutonium in the body can cause cancer-are unconvinced. They have asked the Federal Government for the $30 million the town will have to spend to create a new water supply. Meanwhile a few residents are taking no chances; they are buying their drinking water in bottles...
...claimed that his disability never affected his performance on the field. Shortly before he died, he was quoted as communicating, "I found it no handicap. I could feel the tiniest foul tip and when on the bases I had my own secret way of knowing when a batter made a foul tip. The yelling of the opposition was useless as far as I was concerned...
...romance, is required to get into a duel with him. Presumably, that is something the athletic and liberated modern wom an can identify with, but it is a silly business. Olivia de Havilland could prove her fighting spirit with a word or a glance and not suffer even the tiniest rip in her bodice. Poor Bujold, on the other hand, must come close to being stripped to the waist by Shaw's rapier - a dishonorable dueling tactic that his gallant screen forebears would never have indulged...
...sales are not coming where Detroit's automakers had expected. For all the stress on fuel economy and thinking small that followed the 1973 Middle East oil embargo, the public is now largely spurning the industry's tiniest models. Instead, motorists are buying larger, somewhat gas-thirstier compacts and intermediates that offer a bit more leg room, somewhat more trunk space and in some cases even a touch of high style...
Wine and Criticism. La Varenne is by no means an academy for chefs. Consultant Child, citing the eminent Paul Bocuse's definition of a chef as "a general who commands an army," prefers to think of the school as "a clearinghouse for everyone who is even the tiniest bit interested in cooking." The interest is evident. Since its opening last month, without advertising, La Varenne's New York office alone has received more than 1,000 requests for brochures. Enthusiasts from all over the U.S. have signed up for La Varenne courses (from a week...