The EPA's Hot and Dusty Air
The EPA's Hot and Dusty Air In "The EPA's Hot Air" (July 7), Michael Fumento discusses what he perceives to be a weak scientific basis for the EPA's new standards for 2.5 micron and smaller...
...But I would hate to have been the student at Georgetown University who turned in a paper containing a sentence like that to Dr...
...For the government to foist these standards on the country in such a totally uninformed manner is to invite yet another wave of unintended consequences...
...If you don't believe me, just ask her...
...William E. Beer Pittstown, NJ Sins and Sentences Three rousing cheers to Walter Berns for his essay "Clinton Lays an Egg" (July 7...
...My second suggestion is to have children...
...This dust often reaches northern South America, the Caribbean, and the southeast United States...
...An analysis of Glenn's voting record indicates very little deviation from that of Metzenbaum...
...Coming from chicken country (Arkansas), this should be easy to remember for both Bill and Hillary...
...I wish to add that purely natural events will occasionally place portions of the United States in non-compliance with the new standards...
...Sahara dust events and similar episodes that carry dust from the Gobi Desert to Hawaii each spring dramatically illustrate how small particles can be transported considerable distances...
...Woe to you if you forget either of these dates...
...These traits no longer being sufficient to guarantee reelection, Glenn decided to retire after this term rather than face almost certain defeat at the hands of the highly popular George Voinovich, a moderate Republican and current Ohio governor...
...Forrest M. Mims III Seguin, TX Michael Fumento's article is a perfect microcosm of the endemic stupidity in the District of Clueless-ness...
...This made it difficult for Glenn to continue promulgating his false reputation as a moderate, non-partisan politician...
...The current climate is taking male athletes out of their sports by elimination and installing women's sports that too often can't field enough players...
...Nothing is so disconcerting as coming back from the refrigerator with a cold adult beverage and finding that the ball game you were watching has turned into the Home Shopping Network or a rerun of Barney...
...Does the new EPA standard apply to natural dust events...
...Correspondence Circumstances began to change after the 1994 election...
...Park Chamberlain Woodside, CA...
...Moreover, an examination of John Glenn's career in the Senate reveals another undeniable fact: His four-term tenure is characterized by remarkably few accomplishments...
...I doubt we have seen the last of the Blinn College affair...
...Well, your wife does, and she will remind you of it every time you disagree on a memory subject...
...Because of the loony rhetoric of the socialist-leaning Metzenbaum, Glenn was easily able to cast himself as a moderate...
...These questions are important, for there is not now an atmospheric network or satellite capable of validating the origin of all the many kinds of natural and non-natural dust events...
...If she deserves credit for one act, it has to be for having the finest hair in the Clinton administration...
...Indeed, Sahara dust events have been tracked as far as Arizona and New Mexico...
...As Fumento illustrates, the breadth of the discrepancies regarding the cost estimates for implementing the new standards is truly astounding...
...This actually works to your advantage...
...Good luck...
...How many times have I heard all three say "different than," among other verbal sins...
...Conclusive studies" (as well as outright falsehoods) are tossed about as casually as frisbees on a summer day...
...It is not surprising to many of us in Ohio that Glenn has taken on the role of lead obstructionist in the fund-raising scandals...
...I think it was one of my grade-school teachers who told the class that a good way to remember the difference between "lay" and "lie" is that "people lie" and "chickens lay...
...Since her memory is so much better than yours, give her the task of handling all of the important dates for both your families...
...Remember that important date or event you forgot last year...
...My final suggestion is to never give up control of the remote control...
...NEVER give up control of the remote...
...In spite of this, Glenn, in the past, has been able to win reelection easily, based on his reputation as a war hero, astronaut, and moderate complement to Metzenbaum...
...Donald R. Holm Port Townsend, WA Another Lawyer Joke Matthew Rees's excellent article regarding Judge Stephen Rein-hardt ("Judge Reinhardt, the Overturned," May 5) and the Scrapbook item "Overturned Again" (July 7) remind me of a hoary lawyer joke about a judge so inept (let's call him Judge Fuddle) that appellate briefs would begin thus: "This is an appeal from a decision by Judge Fuddle...
...I know that The Weekly Standard isn't People, but Fumento might have questioned the amount of hairspray Browner uses—which could contain some of the dangerous particulate matter...
...Neither Bill nor Hillary—nor Al—is a master of the spoken word...
...Perhaps a subpoena should be issued to John Glenn, as well as to the other Democrat crooks...
...For example, studies going back at least 30 years have shown that enormous quantities of dust are transported across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa every summer...
...It is appropriate to question the EPA about how it plans to validate and respond to events that violate its new PM2.5 standards...
...The first is that your wife has a better memory than you do...
...As for bronchitis at the $587,500 mark, maybe the EPA meant to quote that cost in yen or lire...
...Wait until your father gets home" will be the most uttered phrase in your wife's vocabulary...
...In the Scrapbook item "The President's Private Life," I wonder why you were so gentle with the famous Bob Woodward...
...I played college soccer, a sport that does not generate revenue, and I have coached girls' and boys' teams...
...Douglas W. Brady Chardon, OH Hold Her and the Remote Ihappened to be celebrating my fourteenth anniversary when I read John Podhoretz's "From Singular to Plural" (July 7) about the concerns of a newly-wed...
...As we say in the real world, "If you can't measure it, you can't manage it...
...It is apparent he has been enlisted as a shill in the White House campaign against Kenneth Starr...
...Additional reasons for reversal are as follows . . ." So it should now go with Reinhardt...
...In Ohio, the governor's office is estimating that utility companies alone will have to spend at least $750 million in compliance costs...
...Metzenbaum retired from the Senate and was replaced by moderate Republican Mike DeWine...
...In 1991, I observed and measured a very significant Sahara dust event over southern Texas...
...Just remember, you are going to be the heavy for doling out the discipline...
...When you go to the refrigerator, take the remote with you...
...Arthur M. Shatz Bayside, NY Bravo to Michael Fumento from the Buckeye State...
...Wes Pedersen Chevy Chase, MD Juicy Details Omitted Ienjoyed the July 7 issue's great stories...
...Nothing feels better than to receive your first homemade Father's Day card...
...Possibly because of the media bias toward the first lady's ever-changing hair styles, Browner has failed to receive the respect she deserves for her stylish, shoulder-length cut...
...While many news magazines have addressed the issue of administrator Carol Browner's proposed particulate-matter regulations, few articles have so clearly distinguished the facts from the rhetoric...
...They bring a smile to your face when you walk in the door no matter how hard your day was...
...I hope these suggestions help in the quest for a long, happy marriage...
...If not, who is responsible for determining the origin of the offending particles...
...If you waffle on discipline, kids will eat you alive...
...I have three suggestions for Podhoretz...
...Jacqueline Edwards New York, NY Congratulations to Walter Berns...
...If not, how will the EPA know whether a violation has a purely natural origin...
...For years Ohioans had to suffer the embarrassment of being represented in the Senate by John Glenn and Howard Metzenbaum...
...The piece brought back memories of the early years of my marriage...
...Berns...
...Bill Wilson Findlay, OH The Courts Can't Play Kudos to David Tell for exposing the Title IX athletics scandal ("Playing Unfair," July 7...
...Nothing could be further from the truth...
...As Tell points out, the basketball and football teams at the top schools are being doubly punished: cutting their rosters to accommodate statistics and still funding the women's teams...
...In the case of non-natural particulates, will the EPA punish cities or regions that are in non-compliance solely because of particles that have drifted in from another region...
...Where I take issue with his article is the caricature of Carol Browner...
...Be gentle but firm...
...For example, it would be interesting to see how the EPA arrives at a cost of $4.8 million for each premature death prevented since many medical policies have only a $1 million lifetime cap...
...He managed the impossible—a 135-word sentence that is somehow still readable...
...The only two dates you must remember are your anniversary and her birthday...
...Also, in Andrew Ferguson's "The Partisan Stuff," why did he omit the fact that John Glenn was one of the original Keating Five, who conspired to destroy the savings and loan industry and bilk the taxpayers out of $300 billion...
...This has freed Glenn more than ever to be who he really is: a partisan political hack who, under White House marching orders, is intent on stonewalling and delaying an investigation into criminal activity until after the December 31 deadline...
...They have served me well for 14 years...
...Mark R. Dunn Nashville, TN An Ohio Embarrassment Andrew Ferguson's analysis of John Glenn's tactics ("John Glenn: The Partisan Stuff," July 7) was right on the mark...
...If you do so, life as you know it will change forever...
...I cannot put enough emphasis on this...
...They are the ingredient that completes a family...
...But I was puzzled by some omissions...
...The EPA's Hot and Dusty Air In "The EPA's Hot Air" (July 7), Michael Fumento discusses what he perceives to be a weak scientific basis for the EPA's new standards for 2.5 micron and smaller particulate matter (PM2.5...
...On the other hand, many women's teams excel and will continue to do so...
...The very fact that there are such huge variations indicates that no one has the foggiest idea of the real costs...
...The courts should get off the playing fields and let schools decide if and when they have enough support to field additional teams for women...
Vol. 2 • July 1997 • No. 44
