Word: dumps
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...excursions to the forbidden zone surrounding the entombed remains of the world's worst nuclear accident. Truly adventurous visitors can tour the massive concrete mound where the wreckage of the reactor is buried, a town built for the workers who cleaned up after the accident and a nuclear-waste dump...
Indeed, the periodical has to date served as a forum for a number of ideas not usually espoused by the mainstream Harvard press. The front page of the second issue features articles entitled "Your Pro-War Friends Are Genocidal Bigots, Change Them or Dump Them," and "Kill All Straights...
Angry parents, politicians and clergy gathered on the steps of New York's city hall last week amid placards that demanded STOP FERNANDEZ FROM TEACHING OUR KIDS GAY SEX and DUMP KING CONDOM FERNANDEZ. What schools chancellor Joseph Fernandez is doing, warned Monsignor John Woolsey of New York's Roman Catholic Archdiocese, amounts to a "ratification of sexual promiscuity." Said outraged parent John Murnane: "Fernandez is insulting our children by telling them they cannot be educated as to what is right...
Kimberly Carr, 10, of Montgomery, Vt., recycles her garbage and is designing a board game in which the goal is to save the elephants. Elizabeth Bayley, 17, is active in a Seattle-based youth group that organizes tree plantings, stencils storm drains with dump no waste notices and monitors pollution in Puget Sound. Jeremiah Johnson, 10, from Brentwood, N.Y., puts his McDonald's detritus in recycling bins, tells his mother how long it takes each shopping bag to biodegrade and intervenes whenever his younger brother is about to commit an environmental outrage, like pulling the legs off a defenseless...
Their efforts can be surprisingly effective. Barbara Lewis' sixth-grade class at Jackson Elementary School in Salt Lake City not only pressured the Environmental Protection Agency into clearing a 50,000-bbl. hazardous waste dump but helped push through a reluctant state legislature a bill to pay for such cleanups. "Parents believe you can't beat city hall, and find reasons not to get involved," says Andrew Altman, a spokesman for Greenpeace. "Kids don't have that kind of cynicism. They just get things done...