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For CBS' production team, mining the network's vast trove of archival footage was both daunting and eye opening. In their eight months on the project, team members have viewed more than 1,000 hours of footage and done no small amount of globe trotting to chase down rare material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Our Readers: Apr. 6, 1998 | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

They would have the name of a town, Outer Maroo, but not its location, scrawled months ago on a postcard as a possible next stop. With cruelly bad luck they might find the place. The author describes an outpost of paranoia and fear festering with something more virulent than countrymen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost in the Wilderness | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

Ever since, waters from the surrounding bedrock and a maze of old mine tunnels and shafts have been rushing in and reacting with the ores to form a toxic soup that rises steadily, year after year, like water in a vast bathtub. It's the Berkeley Pit, and it's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Butte, Montana: The Giant Cup Of Poison | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

So, as authorities wrestle with how best to remove and treat the poisons before they reach the danger level, some residents are promoting a new twist on their old livelihood: mining the Berkeley lake. There is growing talk by both local residents and officialdom (scientists and bureaucrats) of seeking to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Butte, Montana: The Giant Cup Of Poison | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

ARCO and Montana Resources, the pit's custodians, like the idea of mining the fetid lake but say it is not yet economically feasible. A local environmental firm, MSE Technology Applications, is testing everything from microbes and chemicals to membrane strainers to remove the ores but says a workable process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Butte, Montana: The Giant Cup Of Poison | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

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