Word: gastonia
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...person -- and a few weeks ago, the same bug turned up again during a routine test. In July residents in the Chelsea section of New York City had to boil their water to kill potentially dangerous bacteria. Just three weeks ago, health officials tacked warnings on 71 houses in Gastonia, North Carolina, advising people that an industrial chemical had been detected in their wells at levels many times higher than what the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency allows...
There can be no doubt as to what sort of beast North Carolina's 12th District is. It ambles crookedly from the textile mills of Gastonia to the skyscrapered banking district of Charlotte, through Lexington's furniture factories, picking up a voter or 10 on its way between Greensboro's downtown and Burlington's outlet malls; onward, ever onward, until it comes to rest 160 miles later among the black neighborhoods of Durham. It is narrow, as narrow in some spots as one lane of the I-85 Interstate highway. Its friends call it "a string of pearls." Most people...
News Editor for This Issue: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Night Editors: Eryn R. Brown '93 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Joshua A. Gastonia '91-'92 Joseph R. Palmer '91 Eric S. Solowey '91 Editorial Editor: John L. Larew '91 Sports Editors: Josie Karp '94 Michael R. Grunwald '92 Peter I. Rosenthal '93 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Michael F. Koehler '92 Business Editor: Raymond B. Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Laura A. Dickinson...