Target Practice

C. Milton Wright goalie Sarah Sloop had one game plan in mind going up against Bethesda-Chevy Chase in Monday's state field hockey semifinal. She wanted to be aggressive."

News item, from an Environmental Protection Agency report on Brooklyn Park's Snow Hill Lane Dump, Anne Arundel County's most recent addition to the EPA's "Superfund" cleanup list:"Past site investigations (1982-1989) revealed the presence of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), lead, and cyanide at levels in the soil that were above expectedbackgrounds for the area."Also scattered across the site are abandoned drums and tires. The drums are in various stages of disintegration and have apparently been used for target practice.

Guns are an affront to a civil societyAs members of a civilized society approaching the 21st century, we have the right to ask our fellow citizens who want guns to demonstrate an overriding need before allowing them to acquire weapons that daily terrorize, maim and kill. Each year tens of thousands of Americans are killed by handguns, many of them our children. According to the Department of Justice, handguns are used in the commission of more than 600,000 crimes annually. Medical care for the wounded alone costs our society more than $1 billion a year.