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...emergency and took over the cleanup chore. So far, it has spent nearly $1 million and estimates that complete removal of all hazardous wastes at the site could cost more than $12 million. "They couldn't have located that dump in a worse place," says Roland Kasting, a farmer who lives near by. "There's a vast underground reservoir right underneath us. There have to be laws on this chemical waste. It's going to get worse and worse-it's going to be everywhere...
...summer's drought in the South and parts of the Midwest. In many sections of the country, the average temperatures ranged six to eight degrees above normal, and rainfall was less than half the usual amount. Says Agriculture Department Economist J. Dawson Ahalt: "If you're a farmer in Arkansas or eastern Nebraska, this drought has knocked hell out of you, really cut your yields by half in some instances...
Others are not so lucky. Last month there was an outbreak of automatic weapons fire one night in the central sector. No death has been reported, but a farmer on the western side says...
...rush to the mountain has actually been a sprint. Last January, after coming across traces of alluvial gold on his land, Farmer Genésio Ferreira da Silvia hired a geologist to investigate whether there was a larger deposit. Word leaked out, and within a week 1,000 prospectors had descended on the farm. Five weeks later, there were 10,000 on Ferreira's property and another 12,000 nearby. Huge nuggets were quickly discovered, the biggest weighing nearly 15 lbs., worth more than $108,000 at the current market price. "If we could have only kept the secret...
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