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...acre site in Eagleville, Pennsylvania, the EPA cited 160 responsible parties. At the Petro Processors sites near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where 62 acres of land are saturated with liquid petrochemical wastes, cleanup is expected to last well into the 22nd century, in part because of endless lawsuits filed by and against the large corporations -- including U.S. Steel, Dow Chemical, Exxon Corp. and Allied Chemical -- charged with polluting. Bryant Conway, an attorney who represents a landowner with property near the Petro Processors sites, says the companies he deals with use lawyers to stall the cleanup process by legal means. "None...
...gathered speed and supported a whimsical clarinet solo inevitably finished in an abrupt minor cadence to start the fourth movement. (This is Bartok, after all.) Throughout the third and fourth movements, Mehta conducted from soloist to soloist in the winds and brass. He often adjusted the meter of his baton strokes to fit the parts that became a continuous string--a real concerto for an orchestra...
Where the suburban Simi Valley jury in the first trial heard prosecutors harp on the videotape, this team meticulously countered defense evidence. On whether King's facial wounds came from police batons, Koon testified, "Mr. King fell like a tree. He made a one-point landing on his face." Dr. Harry Smith of San Antonio, Texas, a leading expert witness, asserted this scenario was impossible. The bones beneath King's right eye were crushed to powder, which required a pressure equivalent to 350 lbs., while his nose, which would have been broken by pressure of about 50 lbs., remained intact...
...King brought the beating on himself. Koon, the commanding officer on the scene, told jurors that King displayed threatening "hulk-like strength," appeared to be high on drugs and failed to heed police commands. "He made all the choices, all the wrong choices," said Koon. When a flurry of baton blows had no effect, "I then ordered the officers to attack his joints," Koon recounted. "The intent I had was to cripple him, to break bones, to make him unable to push off the ground." The defense got further support when the judge refused to allow into evidence passages from...
Jefferson's queenship will include a trip to Baton Rouge next week, where she will attend a reception in the governor's mansion, she said. She will then travel to Washington with the parade's princesses, who are elected by district in Louisiana...