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Last week the Milwaukee Sentinel reported that since 1961, two of 155 deaths among people who had worked in the plant where Milorganite is produced resulted from ALS. The Sentinel has also turned up 25 ALS patients in Wisconsin who say they have been exposed to the fertilizer. Neurologist Benjamin Brooks, who directs an ALS research clinic at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, considers these numbers "unusual" and feels any possible tie to heavy metals should be investigated. But he stresses that as yet "there is no established link between Milorganite and ALS." Late last week the sewerage district...
...days of winter: The Crimson seems to have hit a mid-season slump, as it has lost three of its last five contests. Harvard hadn't accomplished that dubious feat since it lost two straight to Wisconsin in December 1985, and then, two games later, lost...
...even though long-distance competition has brought better rates. Indeed, according to a scorecard published in November by Communications Week, local service and repair are now fairly inconsistent across the U.S. The trade publication gave the top grade of A-minus to Ameritech, which serves Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan. The lowest grade of C-plus went to Southwestern Bell (Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas) and NYNEX (New York and New England...
Senators needed only to look across the Capitol for an example of the chaos that can erupt when seniority is ignored. In a rare coup, Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin two years ago seized the chair of the House Armed Services Committee from Illinois' Melvin Price, then 80. Without the seniority shield, Aspin was himself toppled this year by his party's caucus. He had alienated liberals by supporting the MX missile and the contras, and offended many by his general tactlessness (he likened former Speaker Tip O'Neill to a "beached whale"). After two weeks of frenzied campaigning...
...programmed his computer to dial Falwell every 30 seconds. Before Southern Bell stepped in, the stunt cost Falwell $750,000. Then it was homosexual periodicals egging on readers to act against Falwell, an enemy of gay liberation. Late last year the Daily Cardinal student newspaper at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, ran a column advocating "telephone terrorism" and listed the 800 numbers of several targets, including Falwell...