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...problems -- and costs -- have been aggravated by years of neglect. In 1978 President Jimmy Carter instructed the military to comply with environmental legislation, but the order was not enforced. Although Congress in 1980 passed the Superfund law, which made private polluters responsible for cleaning up hazardous wastes, the departments of Defense and Energy were left largely self-regulated. Increasingly, local communities, appalled at revelations about military pollution, clamored for information about what was going on in their neighborhoods and demanded that the Pentagon be made accountable. Only in September did Congress finally pass an act that puts federal facilities under...
Anthony Knighton has only vague memories of beatings by his father, a roofer who now lives in Deerfield Beach. His sharpest memories of childhood are of neglect more than fear. After his mother died when he was three, Knighton, the youngest of six children, shuttled among various relatives in Georgia and Florida. By the time he was 15, he had moved 30 times. "It seemed like nobody cared about me," he says, "so I guessed I had to do for myself." Joyce Moore, 27, a cousin who lives in Delray Beach, Florida, recalls that "people would say he could come...
...cabin aboard the orbital tug Goliath, commanding the 100-person team of Operation ATLAS the most critical mission in the history of space exploration. Toby, and the stepmothers and stepfathers of his extended family, remained behind on a distant world which Singh could never revisit. Decades in space -- and neglect of the mandatory zero-G exercises -- had so weakened him that he could now walk only on the Moon and Mars. Gravity had exiled him from the planet of his birth...
...live longer, but health care will neglect some people...
After seeing the way history turned back on itself last week, we have to wonder how future generations will judge our decisions this fall. Someday a Gulf War grunt may be sitting in a Senate committee, grilling Brent Scowcroft about his neglect of the Kurdish allies, and his answers will sound as foreign and twisted as those of Henry Kissinger...