TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES

TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES WE THINK WE WOULD HAVE FOUND OUT ANYWAY The Anchorage Daily News reports that the lawyer for Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez, claims his client...

...TIDBITS AND OUTRAGES WE THINK WE WOULD HAVE FOUND OUT ANYWAY The Anchorage Daily News reports that the lawyer for Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Exxon Valdez, claims his client should have immunity from any prosecution because of an Alaska law protecting those who report environmental accidents...
...BEYOND THE PLANET OF THE PUBLISHERS Rand McNally's recent/ no y published ma ps of "Photographic World Atlas" does t in chide N Oklahoma orth Da kota, or South Company officials said Dakota.' limitations forced the omsipssaicoens...
...DEAR RED CROSS, IT GIVES US GREAT PLEASURE TO DONATE LOVE CANAL . . ." After the director of a chemical company donated an eight-acre parcel of land to Chicago Goodwill, the charity learned from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency that the land was contaminated and that it, as the current owner, could be liable for cleanup costs...
...REMIND ME NOT TO GO TO THIS GUY TO GET FITTED FOR CONTACTS Several female patients of Iowa optometrist Gary Fisher complained to the state licensing board that in the course of routine eye examinations, he had them strip to the waist...
...After all, he argues, it was Hazelwood who radioed the Coast Guard that his ship was aground and spilling oil...
...They panel voted to exonerate Fisher, saying he was "honestly attempting to provide the best care...
...A couple who had been on an American Airlines flight that encountered a severe storm going from Chicago to New York claimed afterwards that the plane's pilot asked the passengers to vote on which airport he should try to land at, and that the stewardesses took a show of hands...
...COFFEE, TEA, OR RUNWAY THREE...

Vol. 21 • January 1990 • No. 12


 
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