Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mixture of the waste changes. The mess is so flammable that the pool has caught fire twice in the past year. In the marshes around New Jersey's Meadowlands sports complex, home of the pro football Giants, some 200 tons of mercury residues have contaminated Berry's Creek, causing Selikoff to declare, "On a bad day, breathing in the Meadowlands may be as dangerous as driving at Indianapolis." The abandoned shafts and tunnels in the hills above Pennsylvania's Susquehanna River lure illegal chemical dumpers. So much poison has been poured for so long into one deep...
...Rose Creek, Minn...
...aimed to use his purchase merely as a tax shelter, he got interested in building up what has become a globe-girdling enterprise with oil in the North Sea and Libya, an elaborate 20-year fertilizer deal with the Soviet Union and ownership in the U.S. of the Island Creek Coal Co., the nation's fourth largest producer...
That is also the approach being taken by the Hunt family of Texas, whose elegant 145-room mansion on Turtle Creek will open in Dallas next February; its restaurant will be managed by veterans of Manhattan's famed "21" Club. In Los Angeles the 117-suite L'Ermitage, completed in 1976 at a cost of $12 million, is drawing trade away from the Beverly Hilton and other giants, with amenities that include a Jacuzzi whirlpool filled with mineral water and free transportation around town by Rolls-Royce...
...study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, involved healthy women, ages 18 to 54, enrolled at the Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center in Walnut Creek. A quarter of them took oral contraceptives regularly. Among the findings: Pill users did not have higher mortality rates than nonusers, if they did not smoke, and ran no greater risk of developing circulatory problems or cancer of the breast, ovaries or lining of the uterus. Though the researchers did note a slight increase in lung cancer, they said that it was probably caused by the women's heavy cigarette smoking. Similarly, they said...