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While Berger sings the praises of "resource restorers," his account of environmental problems is neither glib nor blindly optimistic. His desciption of the clean-up of the devastated site of a Hooker Chemical Company plant in Michgan tempers hope for restoring a savaged ecosystem with a realistic sense of what can't be done--of political inertia and of the irreparable harm that has already been done...
AFTER YEARS OF citizen complaints and warnings from the state, Hooker settled out of court in what a state official called one of the "ten most important environmental settlements of recent times." The company agreed to take all chemicals and contaminated soil on the site and contain in a gigantic clay vault larger than 13 football fields and to clean the groundwater through massive pumping and filtering...
...Hooker clean-up was "state-of-the-art," but soon after the vault was sealed more contaminated soil was found and studies discovered that the extensive purge-well system was recovering only half of the polluted groundwater. Hooker was unwilling to spend more on clean-up and the state has been unwilling to sue a second time. And even had the system worked perfectly, could it have permanently contained its load of poisons? Said one community activist, "To the best of my knowledge, there is not one single example of such a vault in the world today which...
Harvard's architectural debut was not predictive of its future course. In 1637 or 1638 Harvard bought a four year old modest house built by William Peyntree who was leaving Boston with the Hooker migration. The building was used for a time as the President's house and then in 1644 it was demolished to make way for a new President's house to be built for 150 pounds sterling...
...sudden greatness, his rising to the occasion, and the brutality of his greatness, what might be called the bloody abstraction of it. It was as if Grant had rescinded some logic of cause and effect. Lincoln's best generals failed: refulgent characters like George McClellan and "Fighting Joe" Hooker, who would not fight. Grant, the failure, succeeded. Down the years, if anyone has bothered to think about Grant, he has had to wonder whether the man was a genius (his native genius hidden till the crucial moment) or a nonentity who blundered into momentary success, who arrived at immortality...