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Kellogg, Idaho, and El Paso. (Children are metabolically more susceptible to lead poisoning than adults.) Elevated lead levels can also be found in people who live near freeways, where auto exhausts pollute the air. High arsenic levels have been detected in children living near a copper smelter in Ruston, Wash. High levels of lead and other heavy metals, such as arsenic and mercury, are potentially lethal. Mercury poisoning, caused by industrial dumping of toxic compounds into a harbor, killed an estimated 300 people in the area around Minamata, Japan, and crippled almost 1,000 more...
Cantankerous friends of mine, bummed out by the "issues of the day," have invented their own. They've been to El Paso and know west Texas like the back of this month's Playmate, and they swear that they've seen the sand dune Neil Armstrong stepped out onto that historic day in July 1969. "Backdrops and mock-ups," they say. "No way anybody could ever get to the moon. It was all staged out there in Texas...
...outlawed in Texas. As a result, the twin capitals of quarter-horse racing−and the site of the All-American Futurity for 17 years−are the adjoining towns of Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs, located in the bone-dry Sacramento Mountains, across the state line from El Paso. Every Labor Day weekend the population of these sleepy communities soars from 5,000 to 35,000 as quarter-horse fanatics swarm in by Cadillac and Continental Mark IV, jam the local airstrip with private jets, and fill every hotel room within a radius of 70 miles. Experience has taught...
...within the confines of the shot-putter's 7-ft. circle that Oldfield really exercises his power. At an I.T.A. meet last month in El Paso, Oldfield whirled and hurled the 16-lb. shot farther than anyone else in history. Spinning around with a discus thrower's 1½ turn, which no other shotputter has mastered, Oldfield fired the steel ball 75 ft., an astonishing 3½ ft. past the existing world outdoor mark. Oldfield's effort will not be recognized as a record by amateur governing bodies because of his professional status, but he has more...
...which permit these conditions to exist, which invite their persistence. It's not only a matter of taxes being levied relatively heavily on working people-though it is hard. But the rich can jump through loopholes like trained acrobats, a businessman can go to the plushest restaurant in El Paso with a friend and after three courses and two drinks apiece write the whole thing off as tax deductible. Well that's great for him, his friend and the Alka-Seltzer people...