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...miscarriages and birth defects. "People here were health conscious," says Ross, who blames the congenital heart ailment of her two-year-old daughter Juliana on toxins from the tainted well. "There were so many medical problems on our street we joked that maybe we were living on a toxic dump...
...Ethiopian capital. During a gargantuan banquet for more than 3,000 guests in the Emperor's palace, Kapuściński ventures outdoors to an area where dishwashers are throwing out leftovers from the banquet tables. A strange sound issues from the far side of the garbage dump. "I noticed that something was moving, shifting, murmuring, squishing, sighing, and smacking its lips . . . In the thick night, a crowd of barefoot beggars stood huddled together . . . I watched the crowd devour the scraps, bones, and fish heads with laborious concentration. In the meticulous absorption of this eating there...
...PAST several years, hazardous chemicals have become one of the hottest and most politically toxic issues in state and national government. After the shock of Love Canal and the Times Beach "metrocide," it didn't take long for people to figure out that chemicals that can poison a dump site probably aren't too healthful to work with. Concerned workers and environmentalists around the country began to draft "Right to Know" legislation requiring employers to provide information on any hazardous materials used in their firms...
...struggling to resuscitate flagging industries. But the costs must be stomached nonetheless because they reflect a necessary, and long-overdue, recognition of the dangers of toxic materials. None of the highly publicized toxic waste cases in recent years are isolated examples: even conservative estimates place the number of hazardous dump sites nationwide at 14,000. It is frightening to estimate how many people have come into contact with those toxins before they were discarded. And the medical repercussions are tragic: improper exposure has led to illnesses as sever as nerve damage, liver dysfunction's and cancer...
Opponents claim that the profitmaking hospitals "dump" poor or uninsured patients by sending them to the nearest public hospital. Critics also charge that they concentrate on such relatively simple yet expensive treatments as delivering babies and removing gall bladders, but leave less profitable procedures like organ transplants and cancer therapy to large teaching hospitals...