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m Comment Making Mushroom Soup The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given permission to the operators of the Three Mile Island power plant to boil away 2.3 million gallons of radioactive water...
...A Heartbeat Away At a background briefing for reporters covering his visit to El Salvador, Vice President Dan Quayle said the United States "condones" violence in that country...
...They appear to be a bunch of intellectuals...
...According to U. The National College Newspaper, "students can critically analyze scenes from the soaps, discuss soap-opera history, and write, direct, produce, and perform in an original mini-soap...
...Animals are there to be made into furs...
...however, it is flammable and should not be worn near sources of fire...
...Charge of the Right Brigade A bank in Chevy Chase, Maryland, offers "the Right Card," a VISA credit card whose holders are assured that "every time you use your...
...Sweet Smell of Death BEI Defense Systems, a Dallas-based weapons manufacturer, is promoting its "extraordinarily lethal" Flechette rockets with scratch-and-sniff advertisements in trade publications...
...Hunger, AIDS, and homelessness are what we should be talking about...
...later he said he meant "condemns...
...I think they're worse than hippies...
...you know, not beneficial to society...
...The doll is nineteen inches tall and costs $235...
...Point off Light No...
...The Higher Learning At Onondaga Community College in New York, Sam Daniels teaches a course in "soapology," which he defines as "the study of daytime drama in all primary aspects...
...He explained, reports India Today, that it was an eye bank, and he persuaded the bandits to pledge their eyes...
...Alfred Verecchia, a Hasbro executive, explained: "We have a particular antimilitary bent in the company...
...Joe cartoons for children's television, told The Wall Street Journal that the manufacturer, Hasbro, Inc., instructed him "to depict violence, but not its consequences, on the show...
...Frontiers of Free Enterprise In Riverside, California, the Riverside Ice Company sells shaved ice—at $100 a ton—to sunbound Southern Californians who crave snow on their front lawns...
...The steam will be released into the atmosphere from a 100-foot-high stack...
...Explained Andrew Shagrin, one of the Berkeley students, "It's not that much of a sacrifice to stay in a $100-a-night room rather than one which costs $200...
...Then he told the press that "we expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights...
...Site for Sore Eyes At Dhampur in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, two masked men rushed into a bank and, revolvers drawn, demanded that the manager hand over the cash...
...They're thinking too much, reading too many books, and getting smart too soon...
...Now She Belongs to the Ages Available from the Danbury Mint of Norwalk, Connecticut: a "marvelously realistic" Nancy Reagan portrait doll, attired in an "authentically hand-tailored" replica of the Inaugural Ball gown she wore on January 20, 1981...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Animals are not the big problem—they are not that important...
...The ads release the smell of cordite, the odor that follows a rocket explosion...
...That just happens to be the philosophy of a number of executives running the company...
...Worse than Hippies Kenneth Montz, an Iowa farmer, commenting (in the Des Moines Register) on peace demonstrators protesting the Air Force's Ground Wave Emergency Network radio towers: "Why do they want to protest progress...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Burn After Reading Tag on an item of apparel from Wear Guard of Norwell, Massachusetts: "Notice: This garment meets the general wearing apparel requirements of the Flammable Fabrics Act...
...Nobody Here but Us Peaceniks Frank Paur, an animation artist who worked on G.I...
...1,001 Law students at the University of California, Berkeley, have decided to turn down the $200-a-night hotel rooms offered by law-firm recruiters so that the money can be donated to help the homeless...
...Now You Know High-fashion designer Carolina Herrera explaining, in People magazine, why she intends to continue working with furs: "I've been doing furs for almost six years, and I love them...
...Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...m Comment Making Mushroom Soup The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given permission to the operators of the Three Mile Island power plant to boil away 2.3 million gallons of radioactive water left over from the 1979 accident and subsequent clean-up operations...
...card, a portion of each transaction goes toward funding conservative efforts...
Vol. 53 • April 1989 • No. 4
