Word: disasterous
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More distressing, toxins have leaked through clogged hoses and faulty filter gaskets on two occasions. After one such incident, the Environmental Protection Agency fined the Army $91,700 for "releasing a nerve agent above allowable levels." Says Craig Williams of the Chemical Weapons Working Group, a nationwide citizens' coalition: "To...
Now that the Tooele incinerator is within months of "going hot," the Tooele County Commission, a longtime supporter of the project, is trying to stall. "The county has identified $5 million worth of things that need to be done to move along the emergency-preparedness process," says Myron Lee, spokesman...
If anything, the actual story is compelling. A group of extremely handsome teen-aged boys (Jeremy Sisto, Balthazar Getty, and Scott Wolf, among others) go on a voyage from the Caribbean to the Galapagos and back on a boat manned by cool teachers (John Savage and Caroline Goodall) and a...
It was a classic nor'easter that happened to stretch over 20 states and do tremendous damage. At least 100 lives were lost, many to heart attacks triggered by Sisyphean shoveling. Bill Clinton called the storm a "national disaster" and promised federal relief. In the New York region alone, an...
WASHINGTON, DC: Responding to complaints by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge that the White House dragged its feet providing disaster assistance in the wake of devastating post-blizzard flooding in his state, presidential spokesman Mike McCurry unaccountably accused Ridge of bureaucratic ineptitude, cracking: "He ran his mouth instead of getting the...