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...litigation and faces a mediator's June 21 deadline. Federal and state officials, environmentalists, Native Americans and farmers are still haggling over who will pay for the cleanup and the timetable. If no settlement comes this week, the issue is likely to go back to court -- where it could linger for years while the ecosystem deteriorates. "What's at stake is the biological future of the Everglades and the Florida Bay," says Dick Ring, superintendent of the Everglades National Park...
THOUGH BANNED IN THE U.S. IN 1972, DDT IS NOT forgotten. Soluble in fat, the insecticide leaves trace amounts that can linger for decades in human tissue. Now a study published by the National Cancer Institute suggests that these residual effects may be deadly. Researchers from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and New York University have found that the greater the exposure to DDT the higher the risk of breast cancer for women...
...Wilmot town hall, a couple of miles from his farm, Hall recently read from his gigantic baseball poem. "I would like to linger with Schwitters in the Fenway bleachers, explaining baseball . . . Well, there are nine players . . ." That's Kurt Schwitters, the defunct German Dadaist, Hall explained somewhat obscurely. Fenway needs no explanation; it is the ball park of tragedy where the Red Sox writhe...
...BOTTOM LINE: Call them relaxing or cathartic, these vocals from one of the best country singers linger in the mind...
...adulterous husband: "Yeah, I know all about it; don't act so surprised." The descent continues. On Will He Ever Go Away, McEntire deals with a love affair's ruins, asking, "Shouldn't I start living my life for myself?" She doesn't answer the question, letting it linger in the last twangs of the song...