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...Paying $400 for books for four classes is ridiculous," said David J. Kressel '99. "The sourcebooks are close to $50, even though they've got cheap plastic bindings and aren't hardbound...
...Capitol Hill. House majority whip Tom DeLay, a former exterminator, says the Environmental Protection Agency has allowed fire ants to trample the South. Georgia dentist Charles Norwood says federal regulators have made it hard for children to believe in the tooth fairy. And Cass Ballenger, a North Carolina plastic-packaging manufacturer, says labyrinthine EPA rules have cost his business more than $1 million. Now, in the name of regulatory reform, DeLay, Norwood and Ballenger are attempting to de-fang and defund their old bureaucratic nemeses. Yet a closer look at their tales reveals that in terms of accuracy, they...
Ballenger, chairman of a House subcommittee on workplace protections, fumes over the amount of money the EPA has cost him as the owner of a plastic-packaging company based in Hickory, North Carolina. The EPA regulates his factory because one of its by-products is methyl alcohol, which can contribute to ozone pollution. To control methyl alcohol releases, Ballenger had to build a catalytic converter for $600,000 and spend $500,000 to make airtight the room where he prints labels on the packaging. Running the pollution-control devices cost him $180,000 a year. After all that, he says...
...lives in a one-room shack. Along with him live his wife, five children and two nieces: nine people jammed into a space that measures 20 ft. by 20 ft. The house, on the Pine Ridge Oglala Sioux reservation in South Dakota, has one tiny window with a plastic pane. It is made of Sheetrock and cheap wood siding. In winter the frigid South Dakota wind tears through it like a knife. When it rains, its dirt and sawdust floor becomes a swamp. Now, in a sweltering late summer, flies swarm in and out with impunity...
Ferrara is back at the reins of the Crimson offense this season, though, by his own admission, he is a step slower. A black, metal and plastic brace, padded in both the back and front, announces the reconstructive anterior cruciate ligament surgery and months of rehab about which the Crimson signal-caller now seems unfazed...