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Brookline: An affluent, nearby suburb populated by many people with Harvard degrees and many professionals, some of whom have taken it on themselves to make sure the MATEP smokestack is not spewing noxious gases into their backyards...
Brookline: An affluent, nearby suburb populated by many people with Harvard degrees and many professionals, some of whom have taken it on themselves to make sure the MATEP smokestack is not spewing noxious gases into their backyards...
...Harvard researchers are producing the knowledge that may someday be a noxious gas that will spread over the plains of Yemen and kill 25 or 30,000 people. And though you can't see them--they hide on Huntington Avenue at the Med School or behind the great rhinoceri that guard the Bio Labs--they are doing it. And we know they are because they did it in Vietnam, when they told the President that the war could be won and then suggested that he use napalm to do it. Two Harvard men, one of them who may teach...
...volcanoes seem to act as escape valves has heat - apparently from the decay of radioactive materials - that has been years up within the earth since its birth billions of years ago. The earth's surface once bubbled with thousands of volcanoes. Their vapors formed the first atmosphere - a noxious brew of hydrogen, methane, ammonia and water - and set the stage for the initial stirrings of life...
...many of the Kotts' neighbors. Over 700 families in all, they live around Love Canal, the notorious, stinking chemical sewer that has become a symbol of the country's growing toxic waste problem. For the past two years, one report after another has told harrowing tales of noxious odors leaking into homes, of sinister-colored sludge seeping into basements, of children playing in potholes of pollutants and, worst of all, of abnormally high rates of miscarriages and birth defects, of nerve, respiratory, liver and kidney disorders and of assorted cancers among people of Love Canal...