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...today Superfund is a program under siege, plagued by partisan politics, industry stonewalling and bureaucratic inertia. The U.S. government has spent $27 billion on the effort and forced individual polluters to spend an additional $21 billion. Love Canal, the deadly dump in New York State that spurred the law's passage, has been capped with a layer of clay, and the EPA proposed last month to take it off the list. So far, 278 sites have been delisted. But there are thousands more out there. According to the General Accounting Office (GAO), 1 out of 4 Americans still lives within...
...perhaps we should cheer such inertia. Changing things too fast, after all, could ruin the experience. The attraction of India is its offer of a journey of astonishment--involving both the good and the bad--rather than an easy holiday in the sun. "For all its faults," says Uttam Dave, CEO of PKF Travel Consultancy, "it's one of the few places in the world that has its own character that is uniquely its own, something that has not been bastardized by globalization." Whatever the horrors of Agra and the frustrations of its millions of visitors...
...album reaches its climax on the sinister “Darts of Pleasure,” which oscillates wildly between decadent swagger and lovesick croon before sheer inertia flings it out of its orbit into a furious sing-along German coda—“Ich heisse Superfantastisch! Ich trinke Schampus und Lachfisch!”—which the band has compared to the moment of orgasm. In case you’re wondering about the German, guitarist/keyboardist Nick McCarthy spent his childhood in Munich...
...appears to have decided that there's not much it can do either way to prevent the violence that's coming, given the political inertia in Haiti. If the U.S. did intervene, of course, the rebels might back off. But there's no sign that's going to come...
Kirshner, who teaches the popular Science A-35, “Matter in the Universe,” encouraged Quincy House residents to attend yesterday afternoon’s ribbon-cutting ceremony lest they succumb to what he calls “Newton’s Law of Inertia...