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...years of existence, the Environmental Protection Agency has weathered attacks by industry, Congress, the states and consumer and conservation groups. But even thick-skinned EPA officials had to wince at a report issued last week by the Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. The report charged that the EPA had failed to protect the public against poisonous pesticides used to control insects, rodents, weeds and funguses. Said Senator Edward Kennedy, the subcommittee chairman: "I find it incredible that a regulatory agency charged with safeguarding the public health and environment would be so sluggish to recognize and react...
...gush ran thick and embarrassing for a man whose career has proved such an anti-climax. The searching, potentially revealing questions about Welles floated over the exchange and remained unanswered. Not because questioners failed to hint at them, but because Welles himself didn't seem to catch their drift...
...Rocky Mountains to the Sierra Nevada count on taking in fully one-fourth of their profits during the holiday period between Thanksgiving and New Year's. Snow normally begins piling up by mid-November, and by Christmas it usually blankets the slopes in layers 40 to 50 in. thick...
...reporter for the weekly DeWitt County Observer (circ. 3,150) got a tip last October on the biggest story of her life. In a five-hour taped interview, a source spilled out a tale of corruption and brutality involving County Sheriff Keith V. Long, 57, whose gruff manner and thick downstate drawl seem right out of In the Heat of the Night. Trouble was, Reporter Charlene Hettinger, 39, and a colleague, Edith Brady, 22, kept running into brick walls as they tried to check the story out. The local townsfolk and officials were afraid to talk. Recalls Hettinger: "We were...
...down a Jeep trail, jauntily swinging their arms and breathing deeply the crisp, fine air. Suddenly, a sweatsuit-clad figure crashes through the underbrush into a clearing. Panting from a hard run, mud dripping from his shoes, face scratched by brambles, he stares wildly about, then plunges into the thick brush once more. Despite their different styles, all of the people making their way through the forest area near Boston are participating in the sport of orienteering−speed hiking over a prescribed course in unfamiliar terrain, using only a compass and a map to navigate...