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...write to question the quality of the reporting and editing of the article entitled "Council Debates Rugby Grant. Heckling Policy." I found the article to contain biases which are not appropriate in an objective news story...
...morally outraged, and the numbers who favor the death penalty will decline substantially. This, too, is a naive belief. More often than not, dinner-hour TV newscasts are filled with gory scenes featuring the all-too-realistic results of, say, the Iran-Iraq conflict. Moreover popular horror movies contain scenes more graphic than any execution. We are a society that cheers as "Dirty Harry" blows away criminals with a .44 Magnum. We have become acclimated to murder, whether by criminals or by the state. Why should we even flinch when we see a real televised homicide--especially when...
While the University had already determined that certain locations did contain asbestos, officials decided against removing the material, and opted to cover or patch the affected areas...
Also this month the Cambridge health authorities have tried to bar the Arthur D. Little Co. from manufacturing binary nerve gas shells in a North Cambridge laboratory. The weapons, budgeted two years ago in heated Congressional debate, contain two non-toxic substances which combine to make nerve gas only after the weapon has been fired. Before producing any evidence that a health hazard was posed by local manufacture, the department sought a ban, which was promptly overturned by a local court. The city has now actually sought an extension of the ruling in order to try and build a case...
...looks like an undernourished grad student as he waits for a plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. His gray sweater has patches on the elbows; his shoes are scuffed; his ginger hair flops over a pair of steel-framed glasses. He fidgets with a thick pile of papers that contain preliminary sketches for a new portable computer and technical details for silicon chips that will be used in machines of the late 1980s. The tag on his battered black suitcase reads "William H. Gates, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Microsoft...