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...only is sewage that is only halfway purified purposely poured into the Harbor, but, during rainstorms, poisonous sewage accidentally runs into the water, a phenomenon known as combined sewage overflow. This, in addition to the toxicants that over 6,000 industries dump into the Harbor and its tributaries each year, has tainted the water and damaged the Harbor's sea life...
...since the 1960s in the search for a site that is environmentally -- and politically -- safe to bury high-level radioactive wastes from nuclear reactors. When it became apparent that the Department of Energy was dawdling over a hot issue, Congress in 1982 ordered DOE to get a deep nuclear dump in operation by 1998. Last year the department narrowed its candidates to three Western sites: Deaf Smith County, Texas; Yucca Mountain, Nev.; and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. The deadline of 1998 looked easily attainable...
Sometimes consumers encounter sales clerks who cannot find the "on" button on electronic equipment they are selling. A clerk handling vacuum cleaners in a department store confesses to a customer, "I don't know a damn thing about these." Over in the shoe department, clerks nowadays may simply dump boxes at customers' feet rather than helping them with the merchandise...
...less harsh in France than in some other parts of Europe, the cold snap there caused a death toll of at least 31. One potential French victim of the cold was saved in the northern city of Amiens when a vagrant discovered a newborn girl abandoned at the city dump. He called for help, and the girl was rushed to the hospital. Doctors rated her chances of survival excellent and named her Violette because of her purplish complexion when she was first brought...
...most Americans, trucking desiccated Christmas trees to the dump marks the slow beginning of a new year. But for the class of 1988, it is only 13 months before voters in Iowa begin to choose convention delegates, and 1987 seems all too short. While Washington wonders whether Ronald Reagan can recover from Iranscam, those who hope to succeed him are organizing for what promises to be the least predictable, most wide-open campaign in at least a generation...