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That reality includes an infrastructure so dilapidated that the very streets seem to be rising up in rebellion. A year ago, a series of exploding steam pipes spewed carcinogenic asbestos into apartment houses in Manhattan. When some residents moved back into their homes after a protracted cleanup, objects of value had been stolen...
...years ago now." A big prosperous food-canning factory that my grandfather and some other townsmen started in the '20s petered out, I learn, in the early '70s. A steel- fabricating plant operated there for a few years, then went belly up, and now a toxic-waste cleanup putters along in a clutter of rusted metal. Ellsworth Lake is still where it was when my father and I would shove off at first light in a borrowed rowboat, seats slicked by dew, to fish for perch and crappies with bamboo poles and worms. Now a friendly fellow who is launching...
After comparing notes, few conferees saw much ground for optimism. "Southern California cities are spending $100 million a year for cleanup, and the national cost may exceed $4 billion," says vandalism expert Jay Beswick, founder of the National Graffiti Information Network...
...some accounts, Texas will be the largest single beneficiary of the gigantic S&L bailout. A controversial study by Edward Hill, a professor at Cleveland State University, predicts the cleanup will pump about $80 billion into the Texas economy. A dozen other states, mostly in the Southwest, would also profit. Politicians from the Northeast and Midwest complain that their states would foot almost half the bill but see only 5% of the initial bailout money, as opposed to 72% in Texas...
...fresh offensive against pollution. Jan Dogterom, who runs a consulting firm in the Netherlands, represents a new breed of detective hired by governments to track down the culprits who contaminate waterways. Faced with the knowledge that toxins can be traced back to their source, many companies comply readily in cleanup efforts. Says Dogterom: "It is my honest- to-God conviction that the West European rivers will be clean in 50 years, and the East European rivers will soon follow...