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Harvard research facilities may be forced to curtail their use of certain chemicals if a proposed toxic waste bill is approved by the Massachusetts state legislature...
...Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act, expected to be considered early in next year's legislative session, likely will curtail the amount of chemicals used at Harvard. But University officials are not certain as to whether this reduction will significantly affect academic research...
According to L'Ecuyer, use of any of the 2000 substances listed on the Massachusetts Substance List will be affected by the bill. "A lot of the hazardous materials used in university laboratories will come under this law," he said...
...overnight bag. The interrogation ran through 21 pages of single-spaced questions. Was your wife pregnant when you married? No. Have you ever visited a massage parlor? No. Have you seen other women since you were married? No. Have you ever participated in group sex? No. Have you ever used cocaine? No. Hashish? No. Acid? No. Marijuana? No. Heroin? No. Have you ever bought pornography? Yes. His startled questioners were silent. "I bought several hard-core books and magazines for use in my constitutional-law class," Kennedy explained. Everyone laughed...
What, then, to do about the use of a substance that is not intrinsically immoral but that society wants to discourage because of its potential for harm? We have muddled through to a fairly good compromise: make the use illegal, but be extremely circumspect about enforcing the law. Illegality is important to prevent the predictably vast increase in use that would occur if you could get a pack of Acapulco Gold out of the machine that now gives you Kools. And non-prosecution is important because you don't persecute people for behavior that you find impossible to argue...