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Dugger points out in her piece that TVA has improved its environmental record, citing its commitment to land reclamation. But the overall record is still abominable. TVA remains the single largest consumer in the U.S. of strip-mined coal, which it uses to feed its 12 fossil fuel power plants. These plants contaminate the air and water at a rate that places TVA, according to the Council on Economic Priorities, at the top of the 15 largest American utilities in air and water pollution. In 1975, TVA received an order to comply with the Clean Air Act, but the company...
...flocks of white doves and plenty of overzealous rhetoric. In Puebla, an excited priest, warming up the gigantic crowd assembled at a soccer field, referred to the Pope as "John the Baptist, Christ in the flesh, and the new Moses." Near Oaxaca, in the heart of Mexico's largest concentration of traditional Indian culture, John Paul sat atop a massive dais as women performed a stately dance and men wearing giant white clown masks stomped about. Everywhere, street peddlers hawked papal photos or T shirts with the papal portrait...
Imagine the possibilities: signed business contracts could be unsigned, handwritten wills could be rewritten, love letters could hurriedly be made more (or less) loving just before mailing. Boston's Paper Mate, a division of Gillette Co., one of the largest U.S. penmakers, will launch this spring a new $1.69 refillable pen whose ink is erasable. A $5 million ad campaign for the Eraser Mate will push it as a boon to students, to those who fill out many forms, and indeed just about anyone who needs what the company says "could be the end of writing mistakes...
...County, although the largest county in Maryland, seemed more like a small town on the first day of the Johnson trial, which was slated for jury selection...
...County was one of the largest and last strongholds of slavery. Only six years ago did the Justice Department force the county to desegregate its schools, and then in the midst of heated racial clashes which are far from cooled down...