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...nearly 2,000 families is made worse by tons of pollutants from a nearby sludge plant, a steel mill, a paint company, a huge incinerator and an 80-ft.-high landfill. Only a few miles away is a lot that should be a playground. Instead it is a dump filled with 4-ft.-high mounds of trash, broken glass, rusty nails and construction debris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dumping On The Poor | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

...former police sergeant in the suburb of Hawthorne who has become a crusader against racially motivated police brutality: "They don't have white kids sit on the curb when they talk to them. They don't have white men and women put their hands out of the car and dump the contents of their pockets and purses on the car. What they get away with is intentional violation of these people's civil rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Complaints About a Crackdown | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

...music of Midnight Oil, the crusading Australian rock group, which staged a brief but high-decibel lunchtime concert below the company's windows. Between songs, lead singer Peter Garrett condemned Exxon's Alaskan oil spill. "You can't treat the world like a garbage dump," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACTIVISM: Sounding Off For the Earth | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...Korea under the Demilitarized Zone that has separated the two republics since 1953. So when South Korea's Hyundai Construction Co. announced that it was making a donation to North Korea, the nature of the benevolence raised some eyebrows: a bulldozer, an excavator, a forklift, a loader and a dump truck. The North Koreans passed on the offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grapevine: Jun. 11, 1990 | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...onstage throughout the play, sometimes even reciting recipes. A single product reference -- "Eye of newt, toe of frog, one-quarter cup ReaLemon reconstituted lemon juice" -- will be $20,000. An entire couplet will be priced at $40,000. For $60,000, the sisters will say, "Heck, let's just dump this mess and call Domino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: These Foolish Things Remind Me of Diet Coke | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

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