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...upstate New York, not far from the infamous Love Canal, you can follow your nose to Forest Glen, a trailer-park settlement built on heaps of foul- smelling hazardous waste that the Environmental Protection Agency says may contain as many as 150 toxic compounds. Under the streets of the densely populated semi-industrial section of Greenpoint, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Mobil Corp. has begun recovering a sea of oil -- 17 million gals. -- that for decades has been leaking from underground storage tanks and pipelines...
...Forest Glen, Terry and Kathy Freiermuth have shaken up the Federal Government, which has responded by promising buyout offers to residents as well as financial aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
...field sexual rampages. At St. John's University in New York City, members of the lacrosse team were alleged to have drugged, kidnapped and gang-raped a female student at their off-campus home. Two players on Oklahoma University's football team were convicted of rape. In Glen Ridge, N.J., five high school jocks were charged with sexually assaulting a mentally impaired teenage girl with a broomstick and miniature baseball...
Local governments in Berkeley, Portland, Ore., and Glen Cove, N.Y., have banned the material, forcing McDonald's to switch to paper packaging. About a dozen other cities have enacted similar restrictions, and hundreds more towns have considered such laws...
...hosiery industry is jubilant. "I'm looking at a 300% to 400% increase over last year," gloats Glen Greenbaum, vice president of sales for Danskin. Hue, whose lines are sold in 2,000 stores nationwide and in Canada, is up 70% since 1987. At Hermes, leggings are selling like the famous heavy silk scarves. "Even grandmothers are buying them," says a salesclerk. One reason for the popularity of the fashion is economic. As Christian Lacroix, whose palette is wild and whose prices are hair-raising, points out, "This fashion comes from the street, where young people create their own style...