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This summer, it was my father who suggested leaving mom and sis behind and hitting the open road to California. I've never thought of his vacations as pinnacles of excitement. Whether the fulfillment of a lifelong goal like seeing the Grand Ole Opry and the house of Conway Twitty, or going to deserted beaches where the newsstand stocks six national newspapers, they have always seemed to me interminal and boring...
...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 of the ceos of these companies wants to have the costs of this thing show up on his watch...
...addition to Brock and Fulwood, next year's fellows include Lorie Conway George from WCVB-TV in Boston, Frank Gibney Jr. of Newsweek, Maria Henson of the Lexington Herald-Leader, Jerry Kammer of The Arizona Republic, David Lewis of CNN, Katherine Molinski of Reuters, Alan K. Ota of The Oregonian in Portland, Melanie Sill of The News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., Dan Stets of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Larry Tye of The Boston Globe
Williams and Mike Conway, from Michigan Technological University, said the thought of their wives and children made them determined to survive; McFarlane remembers wishing he had told his aging father that he loved him. "I was sure we were all going to die," he said. "The violence was shocking. Nature doesn't care -- there was no mercy out there...
...Conway was the only survivor able to walk away from Galeras; on his way out, he passed the body of a dead tourist whose shirt was still on fire. The fourth survivor, Ecuadoran scientist Luis Lamarie, had to be carried out on a stretcher...