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...piles, soil, air quality or the danger of subsidence. Was it a lack of knowledge of the danger, as EPA claims? Or industry influence, as environmentalists charge? Whatever the reason, federal attorneys settled with mining companies for pennies on the dollar. Now, after fruitless efforts to contain 28 billion gal. of acid mine water, contamination is spreading across a vast watershed. And although the EPA trucked out toxic dirt from about 2,000 homes and schools, Tar Creek's children still show elevated lead levels at six times the national average...
...climb mini-trees in an engrossing exhibit that engages their senses with the sights, sounds and even smells of the outdoors. Similarly, the Children's Museum of Atlanta, which opened in March 2003, has a forest in which preschoolers can don multicolored raincoats and play under a 250-gal. waterfall as they learn the basic scientific properties of water. "It's very difficult to get kids to leave," says Kathleen Reese, as she watches her daughter Alexandra, 2, happily making sand castles in the "Let Your Creativity Flow" area...
With job interviews coming up, and the advent of a certain date in April that has certain significations for certain people who engage in a certain herbal substance, Gossip Guy found himself, err, swamped this week. Fortunately his energetic younger sister, Gossip Gal, is back to heed the call, wearing her spring best and bringing you bare-legged rumors, strappy lies, and pastel-colored innuendo...
This week, salacious gossip website (ahh, Gossip Gal drools for thee) Gawker.com reported, among other tidbits, a liasion between a certain hotshot Harvard professor/journalist/cool dude about town and a student whose facebook.com profile straddles the line between provocative and scandalous. Gossip Gal can neither confirm or deny this rumor, but damn...
...still accept the Bush campaign's contention that Kerry is an unreconstructed gas taxer, what about the $657 figure? Given the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Energy Department, it's a little high. There are about 109 million households consuming a total of 382 million gal. The "correct" charge per family would work out to about...