Volume CXXXIII, Number 11 November 30, 2001 f

Arsenic in drinking water: How much is too much?
A. MYRICK FREEMAN III, FACULTY CONTRIBUTOR
Many observers were surprised when President Bush's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that it would uphold the 80% reduction in the maximum allowed concentration of arsenic in public drinking water supplies first announced by the Clinton administration last January. [read the article]

Schubel speaks on the Gulf of Maine
CONOR WILLIAMS, STAFF WRITER
Historically, the Gulf has been commercially overexploited; the regional extermination of cod, puffins, and the near extinction of the right whale are salient examples. [read the article]

Profile: Bowdoin alumna Hanley Denning fights poverty
ERIC DIAMON, STAFF WRITER
Noxious smells, a high danger of disease, and rampant drug abuse and crime await Hanley Denning each morning at her office in Guatemala City Guatemala. [read the article]

Works in Progress
HAI AHN VU, STAFF WRITER
Despite growing up in an urban area of Chicago, Jennings takes much interest in the educational prospects of the rural community. [read the article]

"Safe" and "Safer"
DR. JEFF BENSON, CONTRIBUTOR
People have safer sex to protect themselves and their partners from STD's, including HIV, and from unplanned pregnancies. They understand that sex is more enjoyable if they are not afraid. [read the article]

F & H: Thomas Hyde clerks for the Lincoln Campaign
KID WONGSRICHANALAI, CONTRIBUTOR
From Bowdoin College in the last few years before the Civil War, Thomas Worchester Hyde of the Class of 1861 wrote, "There is scarcely anything to write from this stupid place!" [read the article]

Beyond the Pines: The Day JFK died
LUDWIG VAN RANG, CONTRIBUTOR
Jack Kennedy wasn't a true liberal, I thought. Besides, I didn't much care for his Boston twang, though of course, like everyone, else was impressed by his youthful good looks, and even more so by those of his glamorous young wife. [read the article]