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...east side is a plant that uses gypsum to make Sheetrock and that, thanks to Riverkeeper, has done a cleanup. Just beyond it rise Units 2 and 3 of the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant. Two mosquelike domes flank a sky-high smokestack painted in red and white stripes. It looks like a lighthouse that has been converted into a festive nuclear missile. Beyond that, at Charles Point, lies a garbage-burning plant, which turns trash into energy...
...plants, says Cronin, are located in exactly the wrong part of the river--the broad, shallow heart of the estuary that serves as a nursery for striped bass, bay anchovies and American shad. The plants suck in water with great force; Indian Point alone uses a million gallons a minute. Fish small enough to slip through the meshes are killed at once. Larger fish are impaled on the screens and killed or maimed. Riverkeeper has forced Indian Point to install $25 million worth of fish-saving equipment, and in 1994 the group successfully sued to make the Environmental Protection Agency...
Former Sanskrit and Indian Studies department chair Daniel Henry Holmes Ingalls '36, who taught at Harvard for 35 years, died July 17 of heart failure in Hot Springs...
Ingalls' writings and teachings have had a wide range of influence among Sanskrit scholars. "The Sanskritists he trained seemed to be everywhere," said Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Diana L. Eck in an e-mail message...
Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies Stephanie Jamison, also praised Ingalls' influence in the field...