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...hadn't read through a book in years. The realization that a transitory stage had turned into a way of life brought on a panic and depression which my grandparent could never have induced and which kept me indoors for several weeks, with little incentive even to wash or eat I had once read somewhere that each newly acquired piece of knowledge etches a fresh wrinkle onto one's brain. With horror, I visualized my cerebrum as smooth as a baby's bottom I had obviously been fooling myself, to believe that I could escape from thinking without effacing...
...same onion can bring tears to the eyes. Grown here, it is called sweet-and is. The former presidential press secretary contends it will not make "your nose run, your heart burn, or your sweetheart gag." (In fairness, it should be pointed out that other localities, like Walla Walla, Wash., also produce a sweet onion. Tests have shown that the sugar content in the Vidalia is highest; it seems to have something to do with the mild climate and the paucity of sulfur in the sandy soil here...
Joggers in Point Defiance Park near Asarco Inc.'s mammoth copper-smelting plant sometimes complain that they can taste the air on windless days. With 575 workers, the 80-acre smelter, operated by Asarco since 1905, pumps some $35 million annually into the Tacoma, Wash., area economy. Unfortunately, the smelter pumps out arsenic, a deadly cancer-causing poison that is released directly into the atmosphere as a byproduct of copper refining. Last week EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus announced details of a new federal air-quality standard for arsenic emissions. However, he left open a tough choice between...
...technology entrepreneurs like to boast that their business is nonpolluting and environmentally sound. But every industry carries environmental risks, and electronics is no exception. The manufacture of computer chips, for example, requires acid baths (to etch microscopic circuits onto tiny ceramic wafers) and vats of industrial cleaning fluids (to wash away extraneous specks). And where there are powerful chemicals, waste-storage difficulties are not far behind...
...seemed to bear out his intense organizational effort in the state (one aide spent six weeks in a single congressional district). But thus far Cranston has been unable to attract broad popular support. As he took a Fourth of July ride on a ferry across Puget Sound to Winslow, Wash. (pop. 2,420), and paraded amid bagpipers and bellydancers there, he was met by quizzical stares from onlookers wondering who the tanned and gaunt stranger...