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...National Academy of Sciences to study PCB-contaminated sites and produce a new cost-benefit analysis of dredging, which critics say GE could use to curtail the Hudson cleanup. GE has long insisted that the prudent course of action on the Hudson is to let sleeping PCBs lie. After complaints from environmentalists and New York politicians, including Senator Hillary Clinton (who has received $45,800 from GE since 1999), the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to call off the study. The issue will be decided later this year...
...extracurricular community functions-invariably deters the vandal. Somehow, the behavioral scientists feel, man must discover how to apply this lesson on a broader scale. The vandal's deed is his declaration of defiance against a society that he neither understands nor approves. The solution to it does not lie in the direction of punitive laws or shatterproof windows, but in restoring the outsider's lost faith in the community...
...commonly played throughout the Philippines. He's trying to expose politicians who rake off the profits, and he recently unearthed three whistle-blowers who claim that Arroyo's husband, son and brother-in-law are involved. The President's aides maintain that the whistle-blowers have been paid to lie, and that Cruz, while an honorable cleric, has been hoodwinked. Cruz defends his actions: "When church people intervene in the so-called political field, it is because even politics is subject to right and wrong, subject to good and evil...
...hour, 15-minute nuptial Mass, the limousines and buses delivered the 450 guests to the Kennedy compound, where two huge white tents equipped with heavy sidewalls and heaters kept out the chill breeze off Nantucket Sound. Inside, fruit trees in full pink-and-white bloom gave the lie to the weather, and a sumptuous lunch was capped by an eight-tier wedding cake weighing a whopping 425 lbs. and topped by the traditional bride and groom figures...
...their integrity and the demands of their employers. White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, grilled by an angry press corps earlier this month about his nuanced evasions on the Libyan disinformation effort, articulated this ethical fence-straddling last week when he told the New York Times, "I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest." Bernard Kalb chose a different route. --By John S. DeMott. Reported by David Beckwith and Johanna McGeary/Washington