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...enforcement. And wrong for all the obvious reasons. Proportionality, to start with: the death penalty, which is what Goetz tried and failed to administer, is reserved for greater crimes than a $5 shakedown. Lack of necessity, for another. Pulling the gun ended the threat. The boys ran. Pulling the trigger was superfluous. Two had to be shot in the back...
...nuclear attack: How high would a column of smoke rise from an urban obliteration? How much smoke would fall back to earth? Would the sun cause smoke plumes to heat up and rise higher into the stratosphere? How many megatons would have to be detonated in order to trigger nuclear winter? To get some answers, several federal agencies, including the Departments of Defense and Energy, the NOAA, NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency are about to launch a comprehensive study. In one of the survey's likely investigations, a plane will fly above large-scale forest fires...
...manufacture of MIC. La Littorale officials proudly point to the facility's extensive security features. The air in the plant is automatically monitored, and should any gas escape from a drum an alarm would call in a crack emergency team. If large enough, the leak would also trigger a water system to deluge and wash down the MIC. Declares Heinz Trautmann, president of La Littorale: "The situation in France is very different from that in India...
Many of the town's residents and plant workers praise Union Carbide for its safety record. They speak glowingly of how the plant was one of the few in the region that did not lay off workers during the recession. The news from India did not trigger panic. Says Nelljean Holmes, whose husband has worked at the plant for the past 24 years: "The first thing I thought of was that maybe they didn't have qualified workers at the plant in India. I just don't think what happened in India could happen here." Standing outside...
...declining?an indication that the kidneys were not functioning properly. This put other organs in jeopardy and ultimately contributed to heart failure, Bailey explained at the press conference. It was not clear if Fae's kidney problem was due to her drug regimen, the surgery or rejection, which can trigger the failure of a number of organs. Most likely, it was a combination of factors. Though doctors had discussed the possibility of a second transplant?either from a human donor or another baboon?the child's weakened condition made this impossible. At 10:30 p.m. the hospital released a tersely...