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...mile to 7.21. He has competed in the Dartmouth Relays, the Northeastern Athletic Congress at Boston University, the Metropolitan Athletic Conference and the Greater Boston Track Invitational, and he is currently gearing up for the Outdoor Track and Field Junior National Championships, to be held in July at Niagara Falls...
...sits a tiny bronze trophy with a paper sign: "1st place, Times Beach, highest contamination of dioxin award for bravery." Many residents, reluctant to desert the town, plan to wait to see if the Government will provide relocation funds, as it did for the residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, N.Y., which was also polluted with dioxin. "I have no place else to go," said former Mayor Charles E. Yarbro. "Relocation and a second mortgage-I couldn't handle it. Nobody could...
...very name of the chemical dumping site has become a symbol of the larger problem of hazardous waste disposal by corporations. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency moved to transform Love Canal from a national skull and crossbones to what it once was, a quiet residential neighborhood near Niagara Falls. The agency also established a new set of rules for dumping industrial wastes that could mean no more Love Canals in the future...
With careful, patient tuning, it reaches out beyond Rte. 128, beyond Albany, beyond Niagara Falls, beyond Cleveland, beyond Toledo, all the way to the self-proclaimed "Paris of the Southeastern corner of lower Michigan," to the clear channel voice of the Great Lakes, radio 760, WJR, Detroit...
...last project, the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Moses left behind twelve bridges, 35 highways, 658 playgrounds and more than 2 million acres of parks. He also built two Robert Moses state parks, a Robert Moses Causeway, a Robert Moses Parkway, a Robert Moses Dam at Niagara and another at Massena, which bears his name in stainless steel letters 3 ft. high. When he was forced out of power by Nelson Rockefeller in 1968, it was estimated he had spent the equivalent of $27 billion...