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...year-old white pine tree knocked down by Hurricane Gloria is currently drying out in Kirkland House, awaiting plans to turn it into a memorial bench...
...some 40 years, beginning in the 1930s, the Velsicol Chemical Co. (formerly the Michigan Chemical Co.) had dumped and burned toxic industrial chemicals on a 3.5-acre site along the Pine River near St. Louis, Mich. A county golf course was developed beside the dump. By the mid-'60s, fish in the river contained high levels of such known or suspected carcinogens as PBB, PCB and DDT. Working with EPA, the company in 1982 agreed to spend $38.5 million to clean up the area. At the golf course, all soil was removed to a depth of 3 ft. below...
...first two jets swooped down on the beach, so low that startled and incredulous bystanders on the shore could pick out the Star of David on the planes' flashing silver tails. A volley of bombs and missiles streaked into a cluster of sand-colored buildings squatting among palms and pine trees in the seaside village of Hammam al-Shatt, twelve miles south of the Tunisian capital...
...white pine which stood behind University Hall saw many changes in its 150 year history, and now, following its fall in last week's hurricane, the tree may see one final change--its transformation into a college memorial...
...great President Kirkland splendidly enclosed the north end of the Old Yard by completing University Hall," Finley said yesterday, "The area behind that was all full of woodpiles, outhouses, and someone even said pigsties, although I'm not sure about that. Kirkland planted a row of pine trees there, and [this tree] was the last one of these...