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...York State that spurred the law's passage, has been capped with a layer of clay, and the EPA proposed last month to take it off the list. So far, 278 sites have been delisted. But there are thousands more out there. According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), 1 out of 4 Americans still lives within four miles of a Superfund site--many of them killing fields saturated with cancer-causing chemicals and other toxins...
...GAO reports that the program's budget fell 35% in inflation-adjusted dollars over the past decade. And environmentalists say that Bush appointees are slowing the pace of cleanups and failing to list potential new sites. According to the EPA's inspector general, 29 projects in 17 states were underfunded last year. The Administration, charges New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, a Democrat, has "allowed--deliberately--these sites to rot where they...
According to the federal General Accounting Office (GAO), 60 percent of U.S. companies did not pay corporate taxes between 1996 and 2000. Wasn’t that during a boom, you ask? Was that not the time during which government coffers should have swelled with the fruits of that juicy 33 percent corporate tax rate? It certainly should have been. Unfortunately, economics has once again shown that the incentives and rewards in the private sector are taking all the talented loophole-leapers away from the public sector, leaving public funding high and dry. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., said...
...What I really hate is that you can’t take higher level courses like ‘Comp. Lit. 220’ and have them count for Lit and Arts A,” says Victor Y. Gao ’04. “For people who have experience and want to be able to do something higher, they should be able...
...petition officials? Denying justice is a crime and a violation of human rights. Critics shouldn't say the poor petitioners are being unpatriotic and are damaging China's image. Being a patriot does not mean being blindly loyal, nor does it mean you must give up your rights. Cherry Gao Yingzhi Hong Kong...