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...chart the hazards, environmental consultants Halff Associates and HBC Engineering/Terracon pored over Sanborn Fire Insurance maps from the late 1800s and old city directories to locate chemical warehouses, junkyards and gas stations. Engineers walked the property with equipment that detected heavy-metal deposits, then bored some 600 holes and collected more than 5,000 soil and water samples. A color-coded map showed the worst problems: pink for lead and arsenic, green for petroleum and purple for benzo(a)pyrene, a carcinogenic by-product of garbage incineration...
...elbow dysplasia and for eye diseases - although the take-up in some breeds is less than 10%. It also funds health research by individual breed clubs - and of the 750, many are working hard on their dogs' problems. Other funding has indirectly helped research on the dog genome map, which is now in a workable form. It will allow scientists to begin identifying the disease-carrying genes and then breeders to selectively breed out the problems. But for any real success in reducing the damage, there must be the will to see the dogs' well-being put before money, trophies...
...map, in this case, is what divides the U.S. into 435 congressional districts. Every ten years, using new census information, legislatures across the country redraw lines for their states? congressional districts to accommodate shifts in population. What changes did the 2000 count turn up? The new numbers reveal a continuing shift of population from the Northeast to the South and West. For example, New York and Pennsylvania, both Democrat-friendly states, lost two congressional seats each. Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Mississippi are also losing one seat each. On the other hand, Republican-friendly states like Arizona...
...They?re incredible statistics, but members of Congress - not to mention Democratic and Republican strategists - are much more interested in a totally different set of numbers gleaned from the 2000 census: They?re poring over the figures that will determine the shape of "the map...
...125th Street and Lenox Ave. newspaper kiosk, I spotted a colorful brochure among a stack of giveaways. Multicolored lettering against neon orange implored: "Harlem: Your Uptown Spot to Shop!" Using this map of stores, restaurants, and services as a guide I made a random selection of locations and jumped to this new shopping challenge...