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...filed by the Quapaw Indians, whose land was leased for the mines. And environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has joined a class action to force companies to relocate the population of two polluted towns, Picher and Cardin. Court papers suggest that mining executives knew as early as the 1930s that the contaminated dust was dangerous but sought to, in their words, "dissuade" the government from intervening. A mining-company lawyer says the charge is based on "out-of-context reading" of historical documents...
...give antibiotics within eight or nine days of the onset of symptoms, which is why you can afford to wait for the results of a throat culture. For reasons that are not clear, the incidence of rheumatic fever has dropped dramatically in most of the U.S. since the 1930s. And studies have shown that many adults get over mild strep infections without taking antibiotics. Children, who are more susceptible to strep and rheumatic fever, are usually treated more aggressively...
...Richard A. Clarke for his Viewpoint "The New Terrorist Threat" [March 22]. As Clarke noted, "[M]aybe we should be asking why the terrorists hate us." That seems like a better idea than blindly lashing out at them. If we had intelligently examined the reasons for fascism in the 1930s or communism during the cold war, perhaps we would have been better able to understand and deal with them. If we comprehend what drives otherwise apparently intelligent and moral people to kill themselves and innocent victims, we can alter the circumstances and perhaps our behavior. That does not mean kowtowing...
...directorial fiat as a fast car worth strapping herself into. The result of this fascinating collision is Dogville, for which the notoriously kooky Danish auteur lured a distinguished cast to Scandinavia (he refuses to fly) so they could pretend to be in an American town in the 1930s...
BYRNE: Shocks create value in certain areas. But to say they wouldn't create an incredible flight to quality is a mistake. This gets in the psyche of folks and causes them to be more cautious, along the lines of people's behavior in the 1930s...