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...Homestead High, recalls Electronics Teacher John McCollum, "as something of a loner. He always had a different way of looking at things." Solitude may, however, have bred ambition. McCollum was stunned to learn that the young loner, needing parts for class projects, picked up the phone and called Burroughs collect in Detroit and Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, over in Palo Alto...
...giving with the other. The ban on public gatherings, for example, will be lifted, but the penal code has now been amended to make it illegal to "incite public unrest." The punishment for the new crime: up to three years in prison. In addition, it is illegal to "collect" antistate publications; under martial law it was only illegal to print or distribute them. Similarly, the routine tapping of telephone conversations will be suspended. But the government will retain the right to tap phone calls at its discretion, and is now permitted, for the first time, to use tape recordings...
...latest report concludes lamely that the investigators "could not disregard the circumstantial evidence" indicating "possible" use of biochemical weapons. But the team led by Egyptian Military Physician Esmat Ezz included "political officers" from Bulgaria and Iran. It did not enter combat zones in Laos, Cambodia and Afghanistan to collect evidence, relying instead on samples and accounts from refugees...
...Massachusetts is long overdue. If executed effectively, it will help to clean up the streets and the parks of the state. If it is implemented perfectly, all bottles and cans will be returned for their deposits. But obviously some consumers--out of apathy or laziness--will neglect to collect their money, leaving millions in spare cash for somebody's coffers...
...emission-control program without further research into the causes of acid rain. The industry argues that 1) scientific data on acid rain are still fuzzy, especially in the crucial matter of precisely who is responsible; 2) costs of eliminating sulfur-dioxide emissions by installing expensive "scrubbers" (which collect harmful substances before they are expelled) are prohibitive; and 3) it is questionable whether the situation is critical enough to justify immediate action. Says Joseph Dowd, general counsel for American Electric Power, which serves 2.5 million customers in the Midwest: "Installing scrubbers could break the economic backbone of the Midwest. And there...