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...historic gold-rush country of Northern California, Lovetta Pyle has struck a vein of woe. Shortly after moving to the town of Sutter Creek, she learned that the gray "sand" that whole neighborhoods sit on is actually mine tailings, the grit left over after gold has been extracted from the ground. In those tailings is a toxic byproduct of the mining process: arsenic, in concentrations up to 50 times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARSENIC AND OLD MINES | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...when Lovetta Farrar of Kansas City looked at the decision, she saw something different--a ticket out of prison...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: "My Fetus Pleads the Fifth" | 8/15/1989 | See Source »

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