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...problem, however, extends far beyond Boyertown. Says Bruce Dallas, spokesman for the environmental resources department: "We're just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of impact. Radon could be anywhere." The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that a million American homes may be contaminated, and in May a federal interagency task force reported that indoor radon exposure may cause as many as 30,000 deaths from lung cancer in the U.S. every year...
...taxable income above $90,000, raising the retirement age, progressively indexing benefits, or a combination of any these will assure the program’s solvency. If the “middle” projection proves true, and Social Security is the Titanic heading towards an iceberg, we suggest changing course as soon as possible instead of sinking the ship preemptively and leaving every individual to swim to shore alone...
There was a time in the U.S. when salad meant a wedge of iceberg lettuce. But in the late 1980s, as European salad mixes like mesclun were capturing the attention of gourmets, visionary farmer Todd Koons had the idea of packaging an organic spring-lettuce mix. Mesclun had never been grown in a large-scale industrial way, and mass cultivation proved to be a challenge. But Koons persevered, and by 1993 his company was farming 10,000 acres a year and shipping bagged spring mix nationwide. His enterprise helped change the way Americans get their greens, earning Koons...
Unfortunately, this out-of-character horseshit was just the tip of the iceberg. While terrible new characters swarmed into The OC, the usual suspects either moved out or underwent bizarre transformations. It seems most telling (and unspeakably sad) that Jimmy Cooper and Luke left; apparently, there just isn’t any room for great guys in the new fabric of Orange County...
MEANWHILE IN BRITAIN... Cold, Cold Art There have been many attempts to promote peace in Northern Ireland, but artist Rita Duffy'seffort is unique. Duffy plans to tow an iceberg from Norway to Belfast, the city where the ill-fated Titanic was built and from which it set off on its fatal maiden voyage in 1912. Duffy said she hoped the iceberg would be "a symbol of hope" for the province's divided community. Alas, like so many peace agreements before it, the work is bound to melt down...