Re "Baseball Receives Conclusions, Not Closure," Dec. 16: George Vecsey stated that Donald M. Fehr of the players union "blamed Peter V. Ueberroth, the commissioner in 1985, for making a unilateral demand for testing and penalties," implying that such action against the use of illegal drugs was unconstitutional.
Nobody's perfect, but in his column "Seeking Closure" (Dec. 10, 2001, p. 212) Joe manages to insult three-quarters of the world where poor people live (5 billion out of 6).
After we controlled for the effect of family, visiting public locations during the school closure (November 2 12) was commonly reported, with 195 (89%) of 220 children visiting at least 1 public place (Table 3).
A parent or legal guardian from each household was asked to provide information about his or her child's (or children's) activities during the school closure (November 2 12, 2006), special arrangements that had to be made for child care, and attitudes toward the closure.
It also offers year-round skiing on the Grande Motte glacier (excluding brief closures mid-May to mid-June, and from September to October).
FDOT also noted that while the department issued FIU a blanket permit to allow two-lane road closures from January to April, the department never received a request from FIU's team to close the entire road.
The lab's closure last month due to security concerns (ScienceNOW, 23 July) has jeopardized a NASA mission to Pluto and the Kuiper belt.
But Keith Poulson, the union's branch secretary at Kellingley colliery in north Yorkshire – whose closure later this month is the reason for the gathering planned for 19 December – is thinking bigger.
Fortunately, the new museum's April opening date will come just in time for the SFMOMA's three-year renovation closure this June.
But the doubling of the carbon floor price by chancellor George Osborne in April meant that, when the mine's contracts ended, there was no buyer, leading to its closure in June.
The shutdown of the site's reactor one follows the closure last June of reactor two.
