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...subway kiosk rests on the remains of an early 18th-century meeting house that was converted to a dumping ground when fire destroyed it in the 1830s. Artifacts from the dump site may be important because they could reveal the socio-economic backgrounds of local inhabitants, Russell Barber, the research director for the ICA, said last week...
Currier needed only a 55 yd. touchdown completion from Jon Ealy to Keith Woods to dump Stiles-Morse 6-0. And as the sun set on this season's House football action, John Marston, Aaron Dean, and Wayne McDuffy scored touchdowns in Winthrop-Leverett's 19-0 sinking of Davenport-Pierson...
...dispute was just another chapter in the long, frustrating history of MATEP. From the beginning, the idea had been a disaster, the project cursed and damned. The first administrative vice president to take charge of the project had hired an incompetent consulting firm--and Harvard had been forced to dump both of them. The power plant, at a cost of more than $230 million, was already the single most expensive project ever undertaken by any university--and Harvard's officials were still struggling to settle long-term financing. For four years, Harvard had been paying through the nose...
When President Carter approved the relocation of some 700 families from the Love Canal area in Niagara Falls, N.Y., last May, he acted on the assumption that the old chemical dump site was, in the words of a New York State report, a "public health time bomb." But just how severely have the people of Love Canal been imperiled? Reviewing the scientific findings to date, a panel of distinguished doctors has now issued a surprising verdict. In its view, no scientific evidence has been offered that the people of Love Canal have suffered "acute health effects" from exposure...
...report, commissioned by New York Governor Hugh Carey, is sharply at odds with preliminary investigations. These had indicated that the rate of miscarriages, birth defects, asthma, and nerve disorders was significantly higher among people living near the runoff from the leaking dump site than among other residents. One researcher, hired by the EPA, claimed to have found a high incidence of chromosomal abnormalities. Such defects have been linked with spontaneous abortions, birth defects and cancer...