Word: hudsons
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...bombing range to protest U.S. military exercises on Vieques Island. While he was in prison, his wife Mary gave birth to their sixth child; they named him Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy. After Bobby returned home, he won a major battle in his long crusade to clean up the Hudson River. If such causes appear modest next to staring down the Russians, integrating the South or going to the moon, they are not. They are simply of their time...
...political dream couple hit the rocks last week when the Environmental Protection Agency ordered GE to begin a much debated dredging of the Hudson River for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), probable carcinogens whose removal will cost GE stockholders $460 million. For 20 years, GE, which dumped the toxins in the river in the first place, had ferociously fought the removal plan, arguing--with the help of up to $60 million worth of ads and political contributions--that doing nothing was the best course. Environmentalists--starved for a flicker of green from the White House--took the order as a sign that...
...they?re ready to try a skirmish on for size. Tuesday, EPA chief Christine Whitman announced she will go ahead with a Clinton-Administration plan to force uber-corporation General Electric to foot the bill for a $460 million clean-up-by-dredging of an area of the northern Hudson River that the company?s plants used as a dumping ground for 1.3 million pounds of PCBs until 1977, when the toxic substance was banned by the federal government...
...slapdash White Stripes office to show him something on the screen: a copy of the first White Stripes single has just sold for $100 on eBay. "It was at $68 yesterday," Jack laughs, shaking his head in amazement. Soon after, the keyboardist for the Black Crowes calls about Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson's guest list for an upcoming show. "Yeah, we're going on Craig Kilborn," Jack mentions to him casually. "Yeah, it's our first time doing TV." (That appearance is scheduled for next month.) The White Stripes may have only sold around 25,000 albums in total...
...Chang was an active professor in Harvard's anthropology department from 1977 until his retirement in 1996. He served as the department's chair from 1981 to 1984 and was appointed as the Hudson Research Professor...