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...contaminated cargo originated in 1989 when a train carrying acrylic acid and other chemicals derailed in Freeland, Mich. CSX Transportation of Jacksonville, Fla., cleaned up the mess and sent it to be landfilled. But members of Greenpeace and other environmental groups bird-dogged the train, and some protesters even chained themselves to it. Two weeks ago, South Carolina fined CSX $21,975 because the train was leaking what appeared to be a toxic liquid. Meanwhile the controversy has scared off four landfill operators so far. Last week the train rolled out of Sumter, S.C., like a rail-bound Flying Dutchman...
...wake of these troubling events, the public finds itself asking the ancient question, "Quis custodit custodes?"--who's guarding the guards? Indeed, there is, as Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) says, "a crisis of confidence in law enforcement...
...typical CPOP officer is Donald Christy, 36, of Lansing, Mich. A little over a year ago, he was assigned to cover a nine-block area of the city. At first disheartened by the sight of crack houses and blighted streets, Christy took pains to get on a first-name basis with many of the area's 700 residents and learn what neighborhood problems concerned them most. Those conversations led him to recognize, he says, "that the good people far outnumbered the bad." Meanwhile, he organized a volunteer community cleanup, which filled 30 Dumpsters with litter; arranged federal funding for floral...
...posh Beverly Hills, the rate is so high (25%) that city officials journeyed to the Orient in January to try to woo prospective tenants. Bucking the trend are a few lucky cities, most of them sleepy state capitals that hotshot dealmakers bypassed in the '80s. Among them: Lansing, Mich. (10%), Albany (9.6%), Raleigh, N.C. (9.4%) and Sacramento...
...Kuwait, stores and restaurants owned by Arab Americans in Los Angeles and Detroit have been set afire. Many Arab-American leaders are receiving regular death threats. At the home of a Lebanese family in Dearborn, vandals burned an Iraqi flag on the front lawn. On Jan. 19 in Blissfield, Mich., 60 townspeople helped scrub clean the walls of a Dairy Queen, owned by a Palestinian American, on which vandals had sprayed U.S.A. NO 1. Last week the Dairy Queen was burned to the ground...