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...country girl actually raised in a log cabin in Elba, Ala. ("We used to go fishing for mud fish in the Pea River -that's what it was called"), Cornelia heard constant talk of politics from her twice-widowed mother, Ruby Folsom Ellis Austin,* who served as official hostess for her brother before he remarried. Cornelia's father, Charles G. Ellis, a civil engineer, died in 1960. At Montgomery's Methodist Huntingdon College and Florida's Rollins College, Cornelia studied voice and piano. Then she slipped into what she calls "my little hillbilly jag." She sang...
These tiny plants, fertilized by nutrients in sewage and by the runoff of farm nitrates, explode into prodigious "blooms" that can cover entire lakes with a pea-green coat. When the algae die, they sink and decompose, depleting the lake's supply of oxygen and hastening its "death"-as has happened in Lake Erie...
Despised Origins. Like several other cities, Chicago purifies sewage with a combination of mechanical and chemical processes. One product is clean water. The other is "sludge," a black goo that smells like tar and has the consistency of pea soup. The sanitary district's problem has been what to do with the sludge. In the past, Chicago sold tons of dried sludge to Florida citrus growers as fertilizer. But drying the waste caused massive amounts of air pollution and was expensive...
...course, and Radcliffe pea soup has always been and perhaps will always be terrible...
...Look at London. For 200 years, it was the most polluted city in the world. [Because of strict antipollution laws], they have not had a pea-soup fog for six years, and last year they had 50% more sunshine than they had ten years ago. Songbirds are returning to the parks, fish are being caught again in the Thames." He recalls a personal hero, Herbert Johnson, supervisor of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. As a minor park employee 18 years ago, Johnson was appalled at New York City's use of Jamaica Bay as a garbage dump and worked...