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...real issue, critics say, is an old rural coal mining town, which had been 90% or more white, unable to come to grips with its new demographics."It becomes discriminatory in effect, if not in intent," said David Vaida, an attorney from nearby Allentown who is a local counsel on the lawsuit. "I'm not willing to tar anybody who is in favor of this as a racist, but what I do know is that the effect is going to be racist...
...main opponents, the Peasant Party, the National Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party. All are in favor of a market economy and pluralism, while differing mainly on the pace and scope of reforms. "We would break with the past more quickly than the Front," says Mircea Vaida, a top official of the Liberal Party in Cluj. Agrees the Front's Badau Wittenbergen: "We want reforms but with proper guarantees against unemployment. It is not possible for us simply to copy Western ways...
Salafsky said that he has not heard any criticism about the prank. He added that he hopes everyone mentioned in the fake test, including instructors William A. Klemperer, Erving Professor of Chemistry and Veronica Vaida, Associate Professor of Chemistry, "take the projects in the humorous vein in which it was intended...
...Ware and Vaida correctly contend that if handled properly, EDB is probably safe. But inexperienced students can not be expected to possess flawless laboratory technique. Science students must learn to deal with lab hazards, but they need not be exposed to risks they are not yet prepared to handle safely: training student scientists in a teaching laboratory with carcinogenic chemicals is like training bomb squads with live explosives...
...respect we wholeheartedly agree with Professors Ware and Vaida: it is unfair to single out EDB without considering all the other potential hazards of the laboratory. Considering the attitude demonstrated in the case of EDB, it seems to be time for a thorough, independent review of all health and safety hazards in Harvard's research and teaching laboratories...