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...More than 3 million residents have no sewage facilities. So tons of waste are left in gutters or vacant lots to become part of the city's water and part of its dust. "If fecal matter were fluorescent," one Mexico City newspaper has said, "the city wouldn't need lights...
...composer underwent profound emotional stress--is here traced directly to one of the era's popular books on philosophy; in addition, Hildesheimer observes. Mozart's first composition after the letter was "A Musical Joke." Hildesheimer also presents his own interpretation of Mozart's notorious tendency to indulge in "fecal comedy." The crude giggly figure of Mozart seen in Peter Sheffer's play "Amadeus" is, it seems, part of the unsavory reality of history. Other half-truths are taken up along the way and variously dispensed with: for anyone but a keen follower of trends of Mozartian interpretation, such discussion obtrudes...
...infected canines. The virus can remain infectious for months, and can be tracked long distances on the soles of shoes or by other means. The disease does not affect humans, but sniffing dogs can pick up the virus by ingesting less than one-thousandth of a gram of fecal material. Five to ten days after exposure, the dogs may become listless, then vomit and develop bloody diarrhea; they also lose their appetite. If the animal becomes dehydrated, it may die unless treated...
PSYCHOHISTORIANS HAVE YET to earn respect from academic quarters. Their attempts to attribute historical catastrophes to the toilet-training mishaps of world leaders neither convinces nor satisfies. Bruce Mazlich's analysis of little Dick Nixon's fecal obsessions and revealing crayon drawings in Search of Nixonsickly fascinates most of us voyeurs, as does Walter C. Langer's secret wartime report on Hitler (eventually published as The Mind of Adolf Hitler) which heaps much blame on mummy for six million deaths. But childhood curiosity sketches, in the end, serve no greater historical purpose; Mazlich does not explain Watergate, Langer predicts Hitler...
Much of the easier, partly cosmetic work has been accomplished. The globs of oil, the multicolored industrial discharges, the flotsam from shoreline cities, the fecal and bacterial wastes are no longer dumped in the lakes in vast quantities. According to the International Joint Commission, the group overseeing the U.S.-Canadian agreements to clean up the waters, more than 600 of the 864 major dischargers into the Great Lakes now meet the tough new water-quality regulations. In the past ten years U.S. and Canadian municipalities have spent more than $5 billion to improve sewage treatment plants. Industries, often prod...