Word: michigan
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...Michigan residents has been exposed to low levels of polybrominated biphenyol (PBB) for the past four years. A more toxic relative of the federally-banned chemical PCB, PBB entered the Michigan food chain through state-distributed feed grain. Thousands of cattle and 1.5 million chickens have been killed or maimed by the disease. Others have been quarantined, dying slowly of PBB-related diseases. But many animals were sold before the state realized the danger. Over 10,000 people in the state, mostly farmers, now have traces of PBB in their bodies that exceed the danger level for cattle...
There was little time to spare. Coal stockpiles in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Michigan had dwindled dangerously. Normally, the utilities in those states use 3 million tons of coal a week during the winter. Lately they have been receiving a weekly average of 300,000 tons from unstruck mines...
...Cheryl left college and took off for New York. With another blue-eyed California blonde, Kelly Harmon, daughter of former Michigan Football Hero Tom Harmon, she lived in an apartment above the Shoreham Hotel's garbage chute. "Neither of us really fit into the New York scene very well," says Harmon, who now models and studies acting in Los Angeles. Despite the fact that Cheryl was working hard, she never seemed happy there. "She was an outdoors nut like myself," says Kelly, and in those days a suntan did not help. A California girl was tagged, she says...
...Michigan State vs. Providence...
...states. That still leaves 30 states as potential havens for child snatchers, however, and the act does not provide a mechanism to track abductions across state lines. An obvious answer is federal standards, but lawmakers are reluctant to thrust Washington into family spats. Says U.S. Representative John Conyers of Michigan, whose House Judiciary subcommittee has buried several federal bills: "Whenever there is onerous conduct, everybody says there ought to be a law." Last week the influential American Bar Association House of Delegates solidly repudiated, 135 to 82, a resolution that would subject parental child snatchers to federal kidnap laws. Cried...