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...picnics and beach parties. Says Dr. Abraham Bergman of the University of Washington, who has studied the psychological toll on youngsters of benign heart murmurs and sickle-cell trait: "Children pay a price for being labeled." There is concern too that overzealous parents will put their offspring on overly stringent diets that can deprive them of essential calories and nutrients and stunt their growth...
...problem yet. While earlier studies using data taken through 1986 had put the loss during the previous decade at about 2%, the new report says the number for the 1980s was closer to 5%. EPA chief William Reilly called the results "disturbing" and vowed to push for more stringent international controls on chlorofluorocarbons, the man-made chemicals thought to be largely responsible for triggering the problem. Most developed countries have agreed to ban the substances by the year 2000, but even that may not be soon enough, said Reilly...
Some Ec 10 teaching fellows said yesterday they were disappointed by the new measures. The more stringent guidelines may affect enrollment, they said...
Revenge is a dish best served cold -- and on White House china. While drafting its recently submitted budget, the Bush Administration secretly proposed that the IRS target its stringent audits not on wealthy individuals and companies (whose lawyers can often stall a case for years) but on middle- and lower- income taxpayers (who generally pay up without protest and provide immediate revenue). IRS Commissioner Fred Goldberg rejected the cash-now plan, calling it "no-good tax policy." But his request to spend an additional $76 million to catch rich tax cheats was pared down to a puny $6 million. Could...
...enacted in June by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, that would stretch the legal life-span of many atomic plants to 60 years. Although the NRC says it will ensure that the industry addresses age-related issues, some scientists charge that the agency's safety guidelines are not stringent enough to prevent catastrophic accidents. Forty years ago, "these nuclear plants, after concerted study, were granted a finite number of years to operate," says M.I.T. physicist Henry Kendall, who shared a Nobel Prize last year for discovering subatomic particles called quarks. "Now the industry wants to extend that time by 20 years...