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...could easily reach $100 billion, or more than $1,000 per U.S. household. Eventually, predicts the General Acccounting Office, which also does studies for Congress, more than 378,000 waste sites may require corrective action. So far the EPA has put only 850 dumps on its priority list (see map). In its five-year effort, it managed to clean up only six sites and, critics protest, not very thoroughly at that...
...witnesses" so powerful is the personal flavor they impart to well-known events. Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk tells how, as an Army colonel in Washington in 1945, he faced the problem of dividing responsibility between Soviet and American troops in liberating Japanese-occupied Korea. Looking at a map, he saw no natural geographical boundaries, so he simply chose the 38th parallel. Richard Nixon remembers how Dwight Eisenhower never publicly criticized John Kennedy for the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, but privately "he used to grit his teeth (and say), 'You know, Dick, I would never have approved...
Agreed Co-Master Hanna Hastings: "He kind of puts us on the map...
Once in a great while a man and his task are so happily fitted that the combination inspires a benign envy. John Wolter is half of just such an equation; his job is chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. A child of the prairie, seized early on by wanderlust, he turned 60 one recent steamy day, and the cogitation that accompanies important anniversaries led him to say that he was precisely where he wanted to be. He tossed out the remark as he guided a tour through his treasures, smiling like a boy showing...
Wolter pulled out a map of Rotterdam. "The Dutch map the devil out of that country. Look here. That's all reclaimed land. It's low country, so they have just had to create a country. See here, every drainage ditch is indicated, every wharf. The tulip areas are down here. Here are the dunes. With the changing and the reclaiming, the mapping has to be precise. They have an artistic flair...