Word: cleanups
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...prospects of a government program to control the flood of mercury in Talawaan are almost zero. World Bank estimates put the cleanup costs at around $1 billion, a laughable figure in near-bankrupt Indonesia. And that assumes environment officials could get into the site. Victor Malonda, who heads the district mining office, recounts how he took 120 policemen and soldiers to the site a year ago to try to halt the mining. "We were chased away," he says despairingly. "They had samurai swords. We had to run for our lives...
...hired a national contractor, Clean Harbors Environmental, to clean the area and recover the oil. Biewener estimated that the cleanup would be completed by the fall...
Biewener met yesterday with the director of Harvard's Environmental Health and Safety department, Joe Griffin, to discuss the cleanup. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and Bedford conservation commission were also notified...
...Mahathir throwing veiled barbs at his old pal? Apparently because he has his own back to the wall. Faced with hemorrhaging support in his core constituency, the country's indigenous Malay population, Mahathir is setting out on a major cleanup campaign aimed at refurbishing his own image and that of his party. Both have long been tainted by allegations of cronyism, corruption and arrogance. For many observers both in and outside of the party, the Prime Minister will almost surely be forced to jettison some of his closest political allies. "He will do things that no other politician will...
...estimated water-cooler chatter on Friday morning was off 30 percent - but "Survivor 2: The Sequel" still beat NBC's stunt-studded "Friends" handily on a weekly basis and still gets more people talking than any network show out there. ("Back From the Outback," a where-are-they-now cleanup show charged with sopping up the last of CBS' May-sweeps spoils next week, may finally yield to the aging Peacock gang.) Here's management's leverage in the Hollywood strike talks: For the second year in a row, actor- and writer-free Reality TV was the headliner...