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...real need for EPA action lies in the area of toxic wastes. In deed Mr. Ruckelhaus owes his current job to a failure to meet this need. Such problems as are and, to a lesser extent, water pollution have been addressed in the last decade, and great progress has been made. But Congress realized three years ago that contamination of our world by deadly chemicals could dwarf all previous environmental problems combined. To battle this growing disaster, they created the so-called "Superfund," a $1.6 billion appropriation to the EPA for locating toxic waste, prosecuting law-breakers, and enforcing clean...
...Technology: One of the most notable strenghts of HGSE in past years has been the work undertaken by Professor Gerald Lesser and his colleagues in developing the children's television program. "Sesame Street" and by Professor Courtney Cazden on "The Electric Company...
...UNUSUAL for small regional dance companies to generate the same level of excitement that groups like the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater generally bring. It is all the more noteworthy, then, when one of the lesser known companies presents something truly original and creative...
Similarly, the "accused" is not receiving as lesser punishment just because the details of the case are not revealed. Professor Dominguez's name has continued to appear in The Crimson and I doubt very much that at this point, he is under "no pressure" to "alter his behavior." The Government Dept.'s action and the unwanted publicity surrounding the case are, I'm sure, more than enough to "pressurize" anybody into mending his ways...
Many of the rebels, of course, were in prison for violent and ugly crimes; many were there for lesser offenses. Yet by and large, at Attica they were treated without distinction, as numbers or niggers or animals to be caged. Most penologists point out that the key to dealing with inmates is to know them-and their leaders-well. In the end, the major failure at Attica may be that the authorities simply did not know what the desperate men behind their walls really wanted, thought or felt...