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Saving the Junk...
...lovely phosphorescent powder was unlike anything Leide das Neves Ferreira, 6, had ever seen. Her father, a junk dealer in the Brazilian city of Goiania, discovered the mysterious substance when he pried open a heavy lead casing that a scavenger had sold him. Leide rubbed the powder on her body so that she glowed and sparkled. Dust fell on the sandwich she was eating. Leide, her father and the scrap collector were in critical condition at a Rio de Janeiro hospital last week, not expected to survive...The ten Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown...
...They may be eschewing more dramatic defenses, but many Americans are taking new, common sense precautions. Many respondents (31 percent) have started washing their hands after they bring in their mail, in an attempt to ward off anthrax, while 34 percent say they?ve started throwing away junk mail without opening it (sorry, advertisers). Seventy-five percent say parents should keep children away from mail until it?s been checked out by an adult. And a surprisingly low number (44 percent) of Americans say it would be a "major problem" if the USPS stopped home mail delivery altogether...
...Good stuff, not junk food or liquor. I want to give that to them. They are studying late at night.” (6/6/01...
This ignores the latest twist on a now familiar argument: that unless we dress up in grotesque or silly frocks and ask people for junk food, the terrorists will have won. "Halloween is the only holiday we have left where people open their doors to strangers," says Lesley Pratt Bannatyne, author of Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History. "It's a holiday for kids, and there is no reason to take it away from them...