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...controversial memo on toxic industries that Summers signed over a decade ago has now been immortalized into song by a Yale music professor. The piece, a chamber work written to accompany the text of the memo, premieres in the Boston area this Saturday...
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to quiz Leavitt about the EPA's post-9/11 announcements on air quality near ground zero. Last month the agency's inspector general determined that the White House added "reassuring statements" to EPA press releases despite the presence of toxic contaminants...
...often does a movie get the kind of prerelease raves that have greeted Mel Gibson's The Passion. "Could fuel hatred, bigotry and anti-Semitism" (the Anti-Defamation League). "Could readily promote anti-Semitism" (Sister Mary C. Boys of New York City's Union Theological Seminary). Some critics predicted toxic damage: "Its real tinder-box effect could be abroad," wrote Frank Rich in the New York Times, "where anti-Semitism has metastasized since 9/11." In the usually sober pages of the New Republic, Paula Fredriksen, the Aurelio Professor of Scripture at Boston University, warned, "When violence breaks out, Mel Gibson...
...loss of beneficial algae due to rising global temperatures. The investigators involved in the study believe human impact goes back much further, to our hunter-gatherer days. Analyzing the evolutionary history of 14 reefs around the world, they found evidence of ancient, land-based pollution that has long been toxic to coral. Additionally, centuries of overfishing may have disrupted the food chain, allowing the overgrowth of other types of algae, which compete with coral for food. This accumulated stress has made reefs vulnerable to modern disease. "The patient is terminally ill," says marine biologist John Pandolfi of the National Museum...
...might be nice to free our children of summer schedules and allow them to play hooky from their overplanned lives, but popular culture is too toxic to allow large, unsupervised doses of free time. Television, movies, pop music and the Internet put children at risk of distorted views of sex, violence and body image. Better to keep them busy with sports, camps and other scheduled activities. BOB KEEFE St. Louis...