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...toilets, sinks and medicine chests. Environmentalists fear that even trace amounts of some pollutants might increase resistance to antibiotics, disrupt reproductive cycles or act as carcinogens. But in most cases, scientists don't know enough about exposure to contaminants at minute quantities to say what dangers, if any, they pose. Among the 95 chemicals tracked...
...They’re going to pose problems for us because they’re a very high-energy transition team,” Mazzoleni said. “They just...
...countries outlined in the report—Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Libya, China and Russia—pose a clear danger to the security of the United States and its allies. All either have weapons of mass destruction, or have tried to develop them. Even more telling, several of these countries—most notably Iraq and Syria—have shown the willingness to slaughter their own people. And though Russia’s relationship with the U.S. has improved immeasurably since the Cold War, it would be irresponsible of the military not to have a nuclear contingency...
Your item about former teen pop star Tiffany's posing in Playboy to show that she is no longer a kid [PEOPLE, Feb. 18] quoted her publicist (a man), who had the audacity to say, "Any woman would be honored to pose for Playboy." Maybe his clients will try anything to get attention. I don't know any self-respecting woman, however, who would think of this as an honor. LENNIE GRIFFITHS Hamilton...
...wealthiest Harvard students, whose parents make substantial incomes, the tuition increase will pose no problems. Likewise, for the least wealthy Harvard students, increased financial aid will absorb the costs of the hike (even if it may leave them with a larger work-study requirement or greater post-college debt). But for the rest of Harvard’s students, whose parents make too much to see the costs absorbed by aid and too little for the costs to be an inconsequential expenditure, the tuition hike will be a real burden. Feeling the pinch of the recession, members of the middle...