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...Tangbai River in central China, for example, officials from Beijing visited earlier this year and promised a clean-up after a campaign by local activists drew national media attention to the cocktail of pollutants including chromium, benzene and volatilized phenol that had poisoned wells and, in at least one village, caused rice to stop growing and cancer rates to spike. But just last month, a tributary of the Tangbai was so polluted that when a TIME reporter drove by, hundreds of people stood along the banks of a stream with a powerful chemical stench, pulling out dead and dying fish...
...resting on her shampoo bottle. “They cling to things. And they’re huge.” Nathan P. Whitfield ’09 saw nearly ten cockroaches as a dorm crew captain in Lowell house during last year’s spring clean-up. Whitfield and his dorm crew saw four live cockroaches—and a dead one—scattered on the walls, in the shower, and on the toilet of one of the bathrooms. He said that the room was not particularly dirty and that he saw the cockroaches in the middle...
...library, which opened in 1939 and contains collections on economics, government, and political science, along with the Environmental Science and Public Policy Archives. The flooding was caused when a cap in a water line broke, according to Matthew P. Stec, the building manager who was on scene coordinating the clean-up effort. Stec said yesterday evening that it was too soon to say how much damage had been caused by the flood. He added that a private mold mitigation company had been called to assist with repairs. Through the library’s ground level windows, numerous men were visible...
...know what exactly I expected the flight attendant to do about my plight. Return for the bag separately? Tell me to leave it in on the floor for the clean-up crew? Have me toss it to the family of five seated in the back row and ask them to tip it on into the restroom? What I most certainly did not expect was that, in the wake of our exchange, said attendant would become so anxious about what precisely I would do with my toxic cargo that I would be given permission to leave my seat and take...
...Palestinian backers. Kauffman is given a list of targets, an amply funded Swiss bank account, and free reign to dispatch the terrorists according to his discretion.Kauffman and his team approach their task with a sense of righteous purpose. When the team’s “clean-up specialist” (Ciarán Hinds) remarks, “It is strange to think of one’s self as an assassin”, Kaufman replies, “Then think of yourself as something else.” In their minds they...