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...fair, the Administration has upheld the vast majority of restrictions on public lands; earlier this month it did not kill a Clinton-era regulation governing the use of personal watercraft, like Jet Skis, in national parks, although to the consternation of some environmentalists it will review the issue, raising the specter of the craft's returning to the parks. But in general, the Interior Department has been much more inclined to allow the use of public lands by corporations and sportsmen. The Administration plans to allow off-road vehicles back on 50,000 acres of the Imperial Sand Dunes, near...
Unusual as it is, the Oklahoma case isn't an isolated incident--and in many ways, it isn't even the worst. Clinical trials are usually pretty safe; the vast majority of subjects are not hurt in any way. But so many problems--and such serious problems--have surfaced in recent years that doctors and hospital administrators are starting to wonder whether there is something dangerously wrong with the clinical-trial system...
...imperialism of Constantine, pillaging during the Crusades, murder in the Inquisition, the selling of indulgences, sexual debauchery by priests and Popes, or institutional cover-ups. The church is and always has been a reflection of people, warts and all. Let's not defame the good name of the vast majority of its priests and, by inference, the collective body because of the decadence of the few. RUSSELL C. SMEDS Collinsville...
...What initially made the connection between Macbeth and the space was the classic conflict in the play of the natural and the unnatural,” Cozzens said. “At first it’s on a vast scale but it also has a much more intimate element...
...indeed, it was white-knuckle stuff in some sections, where the river narrowed dramatically between towers of scoured rock. Vicious eddies buffeted and sucked at the boat as we bobbed perilously close to hull-ripping crags. The waterway's violence was apparent everywhere; shipwrecks bleached on the banks alongside vast uprooted trees...