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...elite who inhabit high-rise fortresses in Manhattan. The armed towers keep out the "aliens," variously known as Starkies, Skells, Trolls and Roaches. They are part of a vast underclass, disinherited by global economic collapse and lingering radioactive wastes. The O-Zone itself is the result of a nuclear-dump accident in the Ozarks, "a place that had once been wooded and parklike and settled, and was now a prohibited area, dangerous and empty, with burst-open roads and fallen bridges and a reputation for poison...
...dozen dump sites in Philadelphia, mounds of refuse, piled in fantastic configurations, looked like some strange, fetid form of sculpture. For 18 days, while municipal garbage collectors remained on strike, the waste mounted to an estimated 20,000 tons. Clouds of flies hovered everywhere; rats scurried from their rancid treasure. Plastic trash bags became toxic balloons, swollen tight by noxious fumes from the detritus inside. "Trash entrepreneurs," driving around in vans, carted bags away for 75 cents each. Along with their luggage, residents even began taking their rubbish with them as they left for vacations in the Poconos...
...established a narrow security zone in southern Lebanon. Two Syrian-backed groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the allied Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, claimed joint responsibility for the "seaborne suicide operation." Twelve hours later, Israel countered with a bombing raid that blew up an ammunition dump and several buildings at Ein el Hilweh, a Palestinian refugee camp near the port city of Sidon on the Lebanese coast...
...scraphog at a 743-acre site near the Hawthorne Army ammunition plant in northern Nevada. Succumbing to public pressure to clean up its old demolition ranges, the Army last year turned over to a civilian contractor the tricky business of clearing the Hawthorne site, which had become a sprawling dump for more than 30 years' worth of defective or leftover bombs. The winner of the $3.2 million contract was a small new firm based in Washington named UXB International. (UXB, which stands for "unexploded bomb," was in the title of a BBC and PBS television series.) The company...
Prime contributors to the growing tide of plastic pollution are the world's merchant ships, which, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences, dump at least 6.6 million tons of trash overboard every year. Some 639,000 plastic containers and bags are tossed into the oceans every day. Commercial fishermen are also major offenders. Estimates of the plastic fishing gear lost or discarded at sea every year range as high as 150,000 tons. Boaters and beachgoers add to the marine litter with six-pack yokes, picnic utensils, sandwich bags and Styrofoam cups. Cities and industries discharging...