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...heart, filling much of his body cavity--could kill him at any time. Michael is just one of more than 100 children with cancer in or near the small town of Toms River, N.J. (pop. 7,524). It's the kind of disproportionate grouping that epidemiologists call a "cancer cluster." Residents put the blame on local companies that allegedly discharged cancer-causing chemicals into the water supply. Determined to get the situation investigated and their community cleaned up, the families have called in a tall, forceful lawyer from Massachusetts named Jan Schlichtmann. He's helping Toms River fight for justice...
...talk to each other around those mega-tables. The length of the square is so large that the person directly across from you sits in a different ZIP code. The closest thing friends can do to approach the old face-to-face intimacy of the single tables is to cluster around a corner of the square. But even this maneuver requires a good bit of neck agility. That new setup pushes people apart...
...usual, the Harvard Square area showed a cluster of thefts from streets, sign poles, and bicycle racks," the report reads. "The numbers, however, have not been nearly as high as in past years...
...complex a beast. The idea of a permanent U.S. orbital platform was first proposed by Ronald Reagan in his State of the Union address in January 1984. For all the station's great size, Reagan envisioned it as a fairly fat-free piece of engineering: a lean, $8 billion cluster of modules that could be manufactured on the ground, be assembled in space and go into service by 1992. Orbiting Earth 200 miles up, it would serve as a flying laboratory for inventing new materials and conducting pharmaceutical work. More important, it would help scientists study the physical effects...
...center is like a campus; it constitutes a cluster of many buildings, all of which Meier designed. Here the public parts of the complex are aligned with the freeway and UCLA, while the areas with more private needs (i.e. the library) are on the residential seaside. He aimed to use the outdoor spaces in this development just as much as the indoor spaces. Considering the elaborate arrival area, which allows visitors to rest, eat and plan outside before entering the complex, as just one of many examples--I think he succeeded...