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...ANYONE HAD TOLD TERRENCE PAYNE, as he watched the wall of flames destroy his family business on April 29, 1992, that four years later his lot deep in the heart of South Central Los Angeles would still be empty, he would have refused to believe it. Payne figured he could rebuild the small grocery store and rental apartments, which had been in his family since 1944, within a year of the L.A. riots. But last week, when Payne met for the umpteenth time with the cadre of bankers and financial advisers trying to close the deal on his project...
...eight states and on Johnston Atoll. Major General Robert Orton, who heads the Army's chemical-weapons-destruction project, predicted, "This will help minimize misunderstandings, expedite the environmental permitting processes and save money." But the history of the one operating incinerator is not reassuring. Though the Johnston facility has destroyed 3% of the nation's stockpile since coming on line in 1990, the effort has been plagued by mishaps. Conveyor belts, chutes and gates have jammed; a rocket exploded inside the incinerator; estimates of the incinerator's efficiency have been revised downward as the Army discovered that it can destroy...
...that it will have no long-term health or environmental consequences. The Federal Government says any such study would take 30 years. And no one is enthusiastic about moving the weapons to distant incineration sites, which poses a different set of risks. "Although we in Alabama are willing to destroy our own stockpile, we are absolutely opposed to other people sending their chemical weapons into our state," says Democratic Representative Glen Browder, whose district is slated to be the site of the nation's third incinerator. "Transporting the weapons would be a hot political issue, and would have a hard...
...itself. But the damage is limited because the immune system has activated two powerful defense mechanisms: antibodies, which surge through the blood neutralizing any HIV particles that seep out of the lymph nodes, and a second group of specialized white blood cells, called killer T cells, which attack and destroy infected tissue...
...current review committee's approach to the Core intends to refine, rather than revolutionize, the current system. This will disappoint many people. I have been passionately implored by more than one senior to destroy the Core as a favor to them before they graduate. (Sorry, guys.) What will result (or, rather, what may result; the committee will not finish deliberations until the next academic year) is a less monolithic Core more amenable to departmental bypasses...